Shishuang Qingzhu
Jap., Sekiso Keisho
Mt. Shishuang ___ ___
| born: 807 died: 888 81 years place: China |
Shishuang Qingzhu is the from the Tang
Dynasty, and he constructed his temple on Mt.
Shishuang in Hunan Province, China. A later
Chan master, Shishuang Chuyuan came to this
location about 200 years later, and taught here
also.
Dynasty, and he constructed his temple on Mt.
Shishuang in Hunan Province, China. A later
Chan master, Shishuang Chuyuan came to this
location about 200 years later, and taught here
also.
| stories: Osho Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt, ch. 3 Communism and Zen Fire, Zen Wind, ch. 5 And the Flowers Showered, ch. 5 |
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| Kyogen was asked by a monk, "What is the way?" He answered, "A dragon singing in a withered tree." The monk said, "I don't know what you are talking about." Kyogen said, "The pupils of the eyes of a skull." Afterwards, another monk asked Sekiso, "What is this `Dragon singing in a withered tree’?" Sekiso said, "It is being invested with joy." The monk then asked, "What is this `Pupils of a skull’?" Sekiso said, "It is the garment of wisdom." These dialogues will look very absurd, but they are not. They have a totally different logic. It is not Aristotelian logic, which divides things, which created the dialectics which culminated in the work of Karl Marx as dialectical materialism. Gautam Buddha, Lao Tzu, and the great masters of Buddhism and Taoism don't believe in dialectics, they believe in oneness. There are no two's, there is nothing other than one. That one has expressed itself in millions of forms, but the innermost reality is one... --Osho Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt, ch. 3 |