A Zen Teacher saw five of his students return from the market, riding their bicycles. When they had dismounted, the teacher asked the students, “Why are you riding your bicycles?”
The first student replied, “The bicycle is carrying this sack of potatoes. I am glad that I do not have to carry them on my back!” [...]
My own experience: the startling fact becomes the matter-of-fact should one really pay attention.
Word spread across the countryside about the wise Holy Man who lived in a small house atop the mountain. A man from the village decided to make the long and difficult journey to visit him.
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A student approached a Zen master and asked, “What happens after we die?”
The master answered, “I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?” exclaimed the student. “But you are a Zen master!”
“That may be true,” the master said, “but I’m not a dead one.”
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