Kakua (Jap.)
born:  
died:   c. 1200

place:  Japan and China
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stories:

Osho
Returning to the Source: talks on Zen, ch. 1
Kakua was a Japanese seeker who is thought to
be one of the first men who went to China to learn
Chan and return to Japan to continue the path.
           oshobob  The Living Workshop                                            
                                                      Zen Masters
Kakua was the first Japanese to study Zen in
China, and while he was there he accepted the
true teaching.
When he was in China he did not travel. He lived
in a remote part of a mountain and meditated
constantly.
Whenever people found him and asked him to
preach, he would say a few words and then move
to another part of the mountain where he could be
found less easily.
When Kakua returned to Japan, the emperor
heard about him and asked him to come to court
to preach Zen for the edification of himself and his
subjects.
Kakua stood before the emperor in silence.
He then produced a flute from the folds of his
robes, blew one short note, bowed politely, and
disappeared.
No one ever knew what became of him.


The real teaching cannot be taught but still it is
called a teaching. It cannot be taught but it can be
shown, indicated. There is no way to say it
directly, but there are millions of ways to indicate it
indirectly.

Lao Tzu says that the truth cannot be said, and
the moment you say it you have already falsified it.
The words, the language, the mind, are utterly
incapable. It defies reason, it defies the
head-oriented personality, it defies the ego. It
cannot be manipulated. It is utterly impossible for
reason to encounter it...

                                                     --Osho
                             Returning to the Source, ch. 1