Guest guest Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 > Hi Wim, > > An insult is only an insult if you realize it as such. > > And you can only realize it as an insult because of your > vulnerability. > > Let me cite J. Krishnamurti: > > " Only the image gets hurt " . > > It is your self-image which gets hurt - no self-image, no > vulnerability. It is an irony if a member of a forum whose aim it is > to lessen the influence of ego to complain about meeting insults. > > Werner P: Great post, Werner, thanks. As you said before it's ironic that people who join a spiritual list and fancy themselves ready to teach can so easily be hurt by a few words. It reminds me of a Zen anecdote: Once in China stood a Zen monastery at the foot of a mountain. Monks who thought themselves ready for the final push toward realization, asked the master for permission to retire to a cave near the summit. There in complete solitude they meditated for hours on end, day after day. Twice a week another monk would climb up with a bowl of rice and a gourd of water. A newcomer, a wondering monk, who asked the master for instruction, only after two weeks of training was getting pretty cocky with his progress and kept asking the master to allow him to go up to the cave. The master, just to get rid of him, finally said, yes. On the second week of living as a hermit, the cocky monk gave an enlightenment poem to the rice boy to take back to the master. " Buddha Nature realized, Immutable as this mounting, I sit in imperturbable peace. Neither tigers nor typhoons could make me stir from this spot. " The Master sent the rice boy back with this message: " Your realization is a dream, your poem is a fart. " On reading this, the monk rushed down to the master room and demanded an explanation. " Ah so! " Said the master, " Tigers and typhoons couldn't make you stir, but my fart blew you all the way down here " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie4@e...> wrote: > > > > > Hi Wim, > > > > An insult is only an insult if you realize it as such. > > > > And you can only realize it as an insult because of your > > vulnerability. > > > > Let me cite J. Krishnamurti: > > > > " Only the image gets hurt " . > > > > It is your self-image which gets hurt - no self-image, no > > vulnerability. It is an irony if a member of a forum whose aim it is > > to lessen the influence of ego to complain about meeting insults. > > > > Werner > > P: Great post, Werner, thanks. As you said before it's ironic > that people who join a spiritual list and fancy themselves > ready to teach can so easily be hurt by a few words. It > reminds me of a Zen anecdote: > > Once in China stood a Zen monastery at the foot of a > mountain. Monks who thought themselves ready for > the final push toward realization, asked the master > for permission to retire to a cave near the summit. > There in complete solitude they meditated for hours > on end, day after day. > > Twice a week another monk would climb up with > a bowl of rice and a gourd of water. A newcomer, > a wondering monk, who asked the master for > instruction, only after two weeks of training was > getting pretty cocky with his progress and kept > asking the master to allow him to go up to the > cave. > > The master, just to get rid of him, finally said, yes. > > On the second week of living as a hermit, the > cocky monk gave an enlightenment poem to > the rice boy to take back to the master. > > " Buddha Nature realized, > Immutable as this mounting, > I sit in imperturbable peace. > Neither tigers nor typhoons > could make me stir from this spot. " > > The Master sent the rice boy back with this > message: > > " Your realization is a dream, > your poem is a fart. " > > On reading this, the monk rushed down > to the master room and demanded an > explanation. > > " Ah so! " Said the master, " Tigers and typhoons > couldn't make you stir, but my fart blew you all > the way down here " EU-REEK-A!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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