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Ma Tzu was immensely compassionate. This stopping of the mind takes years -- he managed it in a single minute. But his method makes him a very weird fellow. And the person who had suddenly become aware of a state of silence was able to see it. Many became enlightened.
Once a monk was entering in the door -- he was half inside the door and half outside -- and Ma Tzu closed the door, so he was fixed in between, screaming, with Ma Tzu asking, "Do you get it?" He has not even asked any question, he has not even entered fully into the temple.
And it looks strange that these people got it -- they never asked again.
Once he threw a man out of the window, and then jumped on him from the window, and asked him... He is suffering fractures but Ma Tzu is not concerned with the fractures; he says, "Forget about fractures! First tell me, do you get it?"
And it is said that the man gasped, "Yes, I get it."
So the young man is referring to Ma Tzu's habit of always having a companion who will explain him to any stranger, a verbal communication, and will also explain that, "If you want Ma Tzu to work upon you, then you have to be ready for all these things -- anything can happen. He is an unpredictable master."
The young fellow, Tozan, who was not a disciple of Nansen, he was just traveling... That too has to be understood: in China and in Japan and other Buddhist countries the monks go on traveling from one monastery to another monastery, until they find the heart with whom their heart beats in a dance. They are received in every monastery with respect. They stay for a few days and if nothing happens there, they move on with gratitude that, "You allowed us to stay here for four days."
This young man, Tozan, was not a resident monk in the monastery of Nansen.
HE STEPPED FORWARD AND SAID, "HE WILL WAIT FOR A COMPANION TO COME." But he will come; that is the implication: he will come. When so many of you are celebrating the anniversary of his death, how can he resist to come? The only problem is, if he cannot get a companion, then it will be very difficult for him to come. But he will get the companion --
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