| 俱胝的手指 每当禅师俱胝在解释有关禅的问题时， 他都会举起一个手指。 一个非常年轻的门徒开始模仿他， 每当有人问他， 他的师傅在讲道时在说些什么， 那个男孩就会举起他的一个手指。 俱胝听说了这件事。 一天他正巧碰见那个男孩正在模仿， 他就抓住他，抽出一把刀， 消下了他的手指，并将它扔掉了。 当男孩嚎叫着跑开时， 俱胝大声喊道：“停！” 男孩停住了，转过身来，透过眼泪 看着他的师傅。 俱胝正举着他自己的手指， 男孩也开始要举起他的那个手指， 而当他意识到手指不在时， 他向师傅鞠躬， 当下，他开悟了。 |
The Zen Master Gutei made a practice of raising his finger whenever he explained a question
about Zen.
A very young disciple began to imitate him, and whenever anyone asked the disciple what his
master had been preaching about, the boy would raise his finger.
Gutei got to hear about this, and when he came upon the boy as he was doing it one day, he
seized the boy, whipped out a knife, cut off his finger, and threw it away.
As the boy ran off howling Gutei shouted, "Stop! "
The boy stopped, turned round, and looked at his master through this tears. Gutei was holding up
his own finger.
The boy went to hold up his finger, and when he realized it wasn't there he bowed.
In that instant he became enlightened.
about Zen.
A very young disciple began to imitate him, and whenever anyone asked the disciple what his
master had been preaching about, the boy would raise his finger.
Gutei got to hear about this, and when he came upon the boy as he was doing it one day, he
seized the boy, whipped out a knife, cut off his finger, and threw it away.
As the boy ran off howling Gutei shouted, "Stop! "
The boy stopped, turned round, and looked at his master through this tears. Gutei was holding up
his own finger.
The boy went to hold up his finger, and when he realized it wasn't there he bowed.
In that instant he became enlightened.
| This is a very strange story, and there is every possibility that you will misunderstand it, because the most difficult thing to understand in life is the behavior of an enlightened person. You have your own values, and you always look through those values. An enlightened person is in a totally different dimension, where he lives without values, where he lives without any criteria, where he lives without any morality, where he simply lives without the ego, because all values belong to the ego. An enlightened person simply lives. He is not manipulating his life, he is a white cloud floating. He has nowhere to go, nothing to achieve. Nothing is good for him and nothing is bad. He does not know any God, he does not know any Devil. He knows only life, and life in its totality is beautiful... --Osho No Water, No Moon, ch. 5 |
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