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have to be hunted and killed, only then can you get non-vegetarian food."
But Ma Tzu was absolutely in tune with Gautam Buddha.
So when Nansen was arranging in his monastery a ceremony on the anniversary of Ma Tzu's death, he said to his disciples -- it is so touching --
"TOMORROW WE WILL OFFER VEGETARIAN FOOD TO MASTER MA TZU. DO YOU THINK HE WILL COME?"
NO ONE ANSWERED. BUT AMONG THE GROUP WAS A YOUNG MAN, A TRAVELING MONK CALLED TOZAN. HE STEPPED FORWARD AND SAID, "HE WILL WAIT FOR A COMPANION TO COME."
NANSEN COMMENTED, "ALTHOUGH THIS MAN IS YOUNG, HE IS QUALIFIED FOR THE TRAINING."
TOZAN RESPONDED, "THE VENERABLE SIR SHOULD NOT OPPRESS A GOOD MAN BY REGARDING HIM AS A WORTHLESS FELLOW."
Tozan finally became himself a great master. He is saying that he will come -- Ma Tzu will come -- and he will not come alone.
It was the habit of Ma Tzu that he is referring to. He always traveled with an enlightened disciple with him, because his teaching method was so strange and many freaked out.
So first he would send those to the companion enlightened man, who could discuss, who could make them aware of all the possibilities, and who could also make them aware that, "If you want to have any communication with Ma Tzu, you have to be ready for these things -- anything is possible. He may beat you, he may jump upon you, he may sit on your chest and ask, `Do you get it?'"
He had his own ways, and we cannot say that he was wrong in his ways because hundreds of disciples became enlightened through him. So what means he applied does not matter, the end was so great.
If you analyze the matter, you will understand there is a great psychological insight. A stranger comes -- not even in his dreams has he thought that a master would jump on him. He has come to ask, "What is the truth?" Now this question does not deserve in any way that the master should jump immediately on him, and sit on his chest with his staff in his hand. Obviously, at this moment, all the thinking of that stranger will stop. What can you think in such a situation? For a moment the whole mind comes to a complete, screeching
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