Myocho Shuho (Jap.)
aka: Daito Kokushi (National Teacher Daito)
aka: Daito Kokushi (National Teacher Daito)
| born: 1282 died: 1334 place: Japan |
| Zen master: Daio Kokushi (Nanpo Jomyo) Zen disciples: Tetto Giko, Kanzan Egen... |
| stories: Osho: The First Principle, ch. 9 Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest, ch. 9 |
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| Some seeker asked master Daito... "Tell us, master, when Shakyamuni Buddha saw the morning star, what did he see?"... Why did he become enlightened by seeing the last star? Many people have copied it – people are foolish, people are monkeys. Many Buddhists sit, they even go to Bodhgaya – they come from China, from Korea, from Japan, from Ceylon – they go to Bodhgaya, they sit under the Bodhi tree, they try to rest the whole night, and they watch, many times it must be, in the night they must be looking: whether the last star is there or gone. And they must be closing their eyes again – it is still night and there are so many stars – and they must be afraid and tense: will they be able to see the last star, or will they miss? And they have to see the last star disappearing... --Osho The First Principle, ch. 9 |