Zhaoti Huilang
Jap., Shodai Yero
Zhoati Temple Wisdom Clear
| born: 738 died: 820 82 years place: China |
Zhaoti lived and taught at Zhaoti Temple for 30 years.
| stories: Osho I Celebrate Myself: God is No Where, Life is Now Here, ch. 6 |
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| Shodai, who was born in 738 in China and died in 820, was a disciple of Sekito. Shodai stayed at Mount Nangaku under Sekito for three years, then went to Mount Shuko where he saw Ma Tzu. Ma Tzu asked, "What did you come here for?" Shodai said, "I came here for Buddha's Jamuna darshan." Ma Tzu said, "Buddha has no Jamuna darshan. Jamuna darshan is the world of delusion. You are from Mount Nangaku, but it seems that you have not yet known that you need Sekito. So you should go back." Hearing that, Shodai went to Sekito. On meeting the master, Shodai asked Sekito, "What is buddha?" Sekito replied, "There is no buddha nature in you." Shodai asked, "What about all living beings?" Sekito replied, "They have buddha nature." Shodai asked, "Why don't I have it?" Sekito said, "Because you don't accept it." At this, Shodai decided to stay there. Later, he lived in the Shodai-ji temple and did not go outdoors for thirty years. Whenever a seeker came to him, he would say, "Go away – you don't have buddha nature." Shodai was not very inventive – that's what I call a "normal" Zen master. He simply had one small statement. Even that small statement helped many, but could not help a really great number of people, because those people who were coming to him were not in the same state in which he was when he asked Sekito. He had been meditating with Sekito for years. He was just on the verge ... the last hit .... --Osho I Celebrate Myself: God is No Where, Life is Now Here, ch. 6 |