Tokai (Jap.)
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place:  Japan
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stories:

Osho
And the Flowers Showered, ch. 7
         oshobob  The Living Workshop                                         
                                                        Zen Masters
While Tokai was a visitor at a certain temple, a
fire started under the kitchen floor.
A monk rushed into Tokai's bedroom,
shouting: 'A fire, master, a fire!'

'Oh?' said Tokai, sitting up. 'Where?'

'Where?' exclaimed the monk. 'Why, under the
kitchen floor – get up at once.'

'The kitchen, eh?' said the master drowsily.
'Well, tell you what, when it reaches the
passageway, come back and let me know.'

Tokai was snoring again in no time.


Tokai was a great Zen master, enlightened,
living in total awareness, and whenever you
live in total awareness you live moment to
moment. You cannot plan, even for the next
moment you cannot plan – because who
knows, the next moment may never come! And
how can you plan it beforehand, because who
knows what the situation will be in the next
moment? And if you plan too much you may
miss it, the freshness of it...

                                                --Osho
                And the Flowers Showered, ch. 7