Shibumi Dojo » koan http://www.shibumidojo.org Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:48:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Midnight Excursion http://www.shibumidojo.org/index.php/2009/04/26/midnight-excursion/ http://www.shibumidojo.org/index.php/2009/04/26/midnight-excursion/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:52:47 +0000 CorpusCallosum http://www.shibumidojo.org/?p=94 Many Zen pupils were studing meditation under the Zen master Sengai. One of them used to arise at night, climb over the temple wall, and go to town on a pleasure jaunt. Sengai, inspecting the dormitory quarters, found this pupil missing one night and also discovered the high stool he had used to scale the well. Sengai removed the stool and stood there in its place. When the wanderer returned, not knowing that Sengai was the stool, he put his feet on the master’s head and jumped down into the grounds. Discovering what he had done, he was aghast.

The pupil never went out at night again.

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