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126. A student asked the sensei, "If a worthless monkey reads the sutras Could he be enlightened?" Old Risu laughed and replied, "I see you've tried it." 127. "Beware when the old man Locks his eyebrows. Then he is really going nowhere," Said the sensei one morning. 128. Old Risu told his students, "I don't dwell in my own house. You don't dwell in your own house. Where do you sleep at night?" When no one answered he said, "Mud snails passing but to where?" 129. "On a good day I can stand and lay down. How is it with you When the bells rings," Said old Risu? 130. "Your futile gesture Makes my umbrella open up," Said old Risu Watching some students recite sutras. 131. Dokyo Chozen asked, "What do you call it When I kick your behind?" Old Risu laughed saying, "Obstinate old donkey! Nothing. I never saw it coming." 132. One note of Dharma. No one can write such music. Yet when Dokyo Chozen sat He always heard it. 133. Everyday old Risu said, "Vanishing near. Vanishing far. Vanishing here. Now, where was I?" 134. "Your head is broken," Said old Risu to his student. "How can you know when midnight arrives? No knock on the door will show you." 135. One day a student confided to old Risu, "Master, I cannot understand your thinking." The sensei waved his stick and said, "What a releif." 136. "Everyday all I hear from you students Is Bodhidharma this and Bodhidharma that." Old Risu rose and then threw his Cushion at them shouting, "See! Bodhidharma isdead! Let him go." 137. A student asked, "When were you born?" Old Risu replied, "I never was." The student made a face and whispered, "impossible." The sensei told him, "Rat on a stick." 138. Hoame asked, "Where do I go to get enlightened?" Old Risu told her, "Three steps down the back road." 139. "When a student visits his sensei What should he do," A student asked? "The sensei should make some tea And drink it himself." "Ah, then what," added the student? Old Risu pounded the floor. ""I'll make some rice but I'm not hungry." 140. "Of all the objects in the universe Which is the most tangible," Asked old Risu of his sensei? "Your head," said Dokyo Chozen. 141. A student said, "What is the difference Between me and you?" Old Risu did not hesitate to say, "In reality nothing at all." "Then why am I the student And you the sensei," challenged the student? "Ahe, there you are in reality," Old Risu said. 142. "If you see a fish in a leaky barrel Delivered through the door What can you say," The sensei asked his attendant? When no answer came old Risu said, ""How nice to meet new students." 143. One day Old Risu rose, Tore his zafu to pieces, And just stood there. "Is that all there is," he thundered? The sensei sat down. 144. A student said, "I get up everyday And eat everyday. So what's wrong with me?" Old Risu said, "That's it exactly." 145. A student asked old Risu, "Show me your mind!" "Spare change," Was all the Sensei said. 146. One day old Risu hung a sign Above the entry to the meditation hall. It read: "Patriarch killers need not apply." 147. "Master, I'm tired of being asked What was your original face before you were born," Said a student. "How about this then," said old Risu. "Where did you come from before you were born?" 148. One day old Risu instructed his students, "I have not come here today So someone else must give you a lesson." With that he left the meditation hall. 149. "This morning I tell you When the moon comes up I sit down," Said the student sitting down. "When the moon sets I stand," He continued as he stood. "How about it now," said old Risu? 150. A priest told old Risu, "I have never been here before But I've seen you." The sensei walked a circle around the priest And said, "I've never seen you." Screaming he cried, "Help! The ape is loose!" Enjoy and have a good night, T.S., Nita, and the perniscious ten |
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