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"THE VENERABLE SIR, SHOULD NOT OPPRESS A GOOD MAN BY REGARDING HIM AS A WORTHLESS FELLOW."
This destroyed the small truth that he has shown in saying, `he will come, but he will wait for a companion.' You are not supposed to be offended by a master, for the simple reason that perhaps you deserved what you got. And the master is not in any way interested in insulting anyone. What is he going to gain by insulting? But he cannot appreciate beyond the limit, because that will give you unnecessarily an ego. And in that way he will become a hindrance in your progress.
Tozan could not understand that at that point.
These small anecdotes are immensely helpful, if you understand that we are not studying them for study's sake. We are the people of the path, we are moving in the same directions. So we should take note of every phenomenon that can happen on the path: the mistakes, going astray for small trivia, becoming angry at the master; and the master was slapping you only out of compassion and love, slapping does not give him any joy.
All these anecdotes, understood rightly, will help you for your own evolution, for your own centering.
A poem by Sekiso:
SACRED AND SECULAR ORIGINALLY LIVE
IN THE SAME HOUSE.
WITH COMPASSIONATE HANDS
THE GREAT MASTER HAS OPENED
THE GATE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
DON'T ASK WHO OR HOW MANY
ARE IN THE HALL.
THESE TILES AND RAFTERS CONTAIN ALL
OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.
A great insight by Sekiso.
He is saying, the SACRED AND THE SECULAR -- the material and the spiritual -- ORIGINALLY LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE. WITH COMPASSIONATE HANDS THE GREAT MASTER HAS OPENED THE GATE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
This statement, that the secular and the sacred live in the same house, is an opening, a new opening of the gate because all the masters have always condemned the material, the secular, and praised the sacred, the spiritual. They have always divided the Zorba and the buddha. In their understanding, Zorba has to be killed -- only then can the buddha come into existence. That is the history of all the religions.
Nansen has opened a new door by
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