Roshi Cagamucho

[Guest guest]

S: >what an asshole!

 

> Hell hath no fury like old disappointed

> seekers.

 

Sam

 

P: Bravo! This is the kind of outraged

response Cagamucho tried to elicit from

monks who had caught a glimpse.

He only gave dokusan to those he deemed

ready. The head monk gave dokosan to the

rest. So, it was quite an occasion, and

a sign of progress to be told:

Master Cagamucho will see you tomorrow.

Imagine the shock at being marched to

the latrine and finding the great

Cagamucho stark naked.

 

 

Those who catch a glimpse, often get caught

in the trap of sublimity. They emit the

stink of new enlightenment- the stink of

superiority.

 

Cagamucho nonverbal lesson was: Nothing

can't be excluded from the great sublimity,

it doesn't exclude anything, not even the

latrine. The great sublimity (Buddha Nature)

is as common as dirt.

 

Pete

 

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" Pete S " <pedsie4

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<advaitaToZen >; <nisargadatta >

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:30 PM

[Nonduality Salon] Roshi Cagamucho

 

 

> Of all Zen master, Roshi Cagamucho, was the

> most eccentric. He only gave dokusan while

> sitting on the latrine with the door open. He sat

> there stark naked, and with the monk sitting on

> the ground in front of him, staring at the golden

> orb of his belly, which boasted its impact crater

> at the center, and the black triangle pointing

> downward toward the smelly void below. And

> all this, while the buzzing of flies sounded as a

> rhythmic chanting.

>

> Many a monk was struck down by satori, when

> in the middle of their lofty elaborations on Mu, the

> teacher would let go of his load, in this way

> masterfully illustrating what it is meant by:

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> " the stink of enlightenment. "

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> Pete

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