07-12-2010, 12:00 AM
The Fool wrote:
"Once, Taizen Deshimaru was asked to give a lecture on zen.
So he arrived at the conference hall full of people.
He adressed the audience and said; this is zen,
so he sat in the lotus position and started zazen.
He stayed there on and on.
Gradually the croud got smaler and smaler,
until there was no one left..."
Maybe he just had a little Bourbon too much that day and once locked in zazen he couldn't even move his jaws?...
Well, everyone knows that zen masters are all drunk,
just look at the koans they come up with.
"Once, Taizen Deshimaru was asked to give a lecture on zen.
So he arrived at the conference hall full of people.
He adressed the audience and said; this is zen,
so he sat in the lotus position and started zazen.
He stayed there on and on.
Gradually the croud got smaler and smaler,
until there was no one left..."
Maybe he just had a little Bourbon too much that day and once locked in zazen he couldn't even move his jaws?...
Well, everyone knows that zen masters are all drunk,
just look at the koans they come up with.