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20009836 No.20009836 [Reply] [Original]

Once, when the monks of the Western and Eastern Halls were quarrelling about a cat, Nansen, holding up the cat, said, "You monks! If (any of) you can speak (a word of Zen) I will spare the cat, otherwise I will kill it!" No one could answer, so Nansen killed it. In the evening, Joshu came back from somewhere, and Nansen told him what had happened. Joshu thereupon took off his shoe, put it on his head, and walked off. Nansen said, "If only you had been there, I could have saved the cat!

>> No.20009860

>>20009836
I don't get it

>> No.20009862

>>20009860
Another dead cat

>> No.20009867

he really wanted shoe on head

>> No.20009988

>>20009836
What is this retarded bullshit ? Is this some metaphor for George Floyd ?

>> No.20009992

>>20009836
he didn't actually kill the cat, dummy. it was a metaphor

>> No.20010004

>>20009988
Yes

>> No.20010018
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20010018

>>20009836
The sage Ryokan noticed a shoot of bamboo growing through the floor of his closet. He admired bamboo (for it is empty and straight) and took great interest in the small shoot. Eventually, it grew too large for its enclosure, so he decided to burn a small hole in his roof. He took a candle to the thatching, but it burned more readily than expected and his entire hut, along with all of the surrounding bamboo, was destroyed in the blaze.

>> No.20010023
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20010023

>> No.20010026

>>20009836
I give zero fucks about cats or monks but shoe on head is always good for a laff

>> No.20010033

>>20010023
u are an imbecile

>> No.20010047

>>20010018
Yes
YES

>> No.20010062
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20010062

I’ve been drinking this green tea called Zen. After reading this thread I’m worried. Will zen make me a retard too?

>> No.20010068

>>20010047
see >>20010062 - but here's why that's a good thing:

>> No.20010072

>>20010068
woops the order of quotes should be reversed. sorry, mushin

>> No.20010090

>>20009836
the monk should simply have said: the cat is frightened. please do not kill the cat.
zen is about the absence of ego. it is not about the absence of compassion.

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20010890

Meds. Now.

>> No.20010915

“all koans just lead you on
but not the delicious pussy of the young girls I go down on”
― Ikkyu, Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu, Fifteenth Century Zen Master