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He must have been really too obsessed with the future. And a person who is obsessed with future is almost always obsessed with past also. That is the way the pendulum of mind goes on moving -- from past to future, future to past. It never stays in the middle where time really exists.
Immediately he said... NO ONE HAD EVER DARED TO STRIKE HIM BEFORE... inside he said -- he moved to the past -- 'no one has ever dared to hit me before.' The master hit him to come herenow; he moved to the past. From the future he jumped to the past. He missed the middle point. He followed a rule.
Rules are not helpful with a master. You have to respond, not according to rules. You have to watch the situation. You are not to interpret according to your mind. You have to look without the mind to see the fact, to see what the master has done. The master had done a great act of compassion, but it had been missed. The ego came as a barrier.
HE WENT AT ONCE TO DOKUON,
WHO WAS TO SUCCEED EKKEI AS ABBOT
AND TOLD HIM THAT HE PLANNED
TO CHALLENGE EKKEI TO A DUEL
'CAN'T YOU SEE
THAT THE MASTER WAS BEING KIND TO YOU?'
SAID DOKUON. 'EXERT YOURSELF IN ZAZEN
AND YOU WILL SEE FOR YOURSELF
WHAT HIS TREATMENT OF YOU MEANS.'
It is a great act of compassion. A master is beyond anger, beyond ego, beyond hurting anybody, but out of his compassion he can even hit. The hit is surgical. The knife is not against you. The knife is not in the hands of the enemy. It is in the hands of a doctor, a surgeon. He's going to cut you deep. He has to take out the growth, the canceric growth inside you of the ego. It is the greatest surgery ever. And he has to be hard, because he loves you.
Dokuon said, 'Don't be puzzled, don't be confused by it, and don't take any decision right now. For a few days sit in zazen.'
Zazen means simply sit, do nothing. Zazen is a beautiful meditation. One simply sits looking at the wall, not doing anything. One goes on sitting... sitting... sitting.
If you simply sit and don't do anything, by and by the mind settles, because there is nothing to be done -- the mind is not needed. In the
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