Tuesday, January 19, 2016

{Awareness} Is that so - Grandfather and I [2 Attachments]

 


 

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- Is that so?

 

- Grandfather and I
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Is that so?
 

The Zen master Hakuin was praised by his neighbors as one living a pure life.

A beautiful Japanese girl whose parents owned a food store lived near him. Suddenly, without any warning, her parents discovered she was with child.

This made her parents angry. She would not confess who the man was, but after much harassment at last named Hakuin.

In great anger the parents went to the master. "Is that so?" was all he would say.

After the child was born it was brought to Hakuin. By this time he had lost his reputation, which did not trouble him, but he took very good care of the child. He obtained milk from his neighbors and everything else the little one needed.

A year later the girl´-mother could stand it no longer. She told her parents the truth—that the real father of the child was a young man who worked in the fishmarket.

The mother and father of the girl at once went to Hakuin to ask his forgiveness, to apologize at length, and to get the child back again.

Hakuin was willing. In yielding the child, all he said was: "Is that so?"

 
Paul Reps; Nyogen Senzaki (org.)

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

Boston, Shambhala Pocket Classics, 1994 

 

 

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Grandfather and I
 

Grandfather and I

are going for a walk.

It will be a slow walk

because

Grandfather and I

never hurry.


We walk along

and walk along

and stop…

and look…

just as long as we like.


Other people we know

are always in a hurry.

Mothers hurry.

They walk in a hurry

and talk in a hurry.

And they always want you to hurry.


But Grandfather and I

never hurry.

We walk along

and walk along

and stop…


and look…

just as long as we like

 
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(To be continued in the PDF attachment)
 
Helen E. Buckley
Grandfather and I
London, Penguin Books, 1994

 

 

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