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down, that the postmaster said finally, "Listen, this is the post office."
He said, "I know."
The postmaster said, "The police station is just opposite, on the other side of the road."
The man said, "I know."
The postmaster said, "If you know, then why are you bothering me? For half an hour crying and weeping... Just go to the police station."
The man said, "Once before it also happened, and I went to the police station and those idiots brought my wife back! Now I'm not going. You have to write it down, just for my consolation, that at least I reported it. To whom I reported it does not matter."
The postmaster said, "Okay, I can take the report, but that will not help."
The man said, "That's what I want, that it should not help. You just write the report. Those police officers are such idiots. I told them that there was no hurry, but they brought my wife within six hours and again the old drama started."
But it is a beautiful world where wives run away, where husbands run away, where people forget to come back home, enter into another home and are gone.
Rather than making it a miserable place, Zen gives it color. And that needs a very great heart, to accept that the drama needs many kinds of people, many kinds of acts, many tragedies, many comedies. There is no need to make judgments.
SUCH DETACHMENT FROM EVERYTHING IS WHAT MASTER RINZAI CALLED "THE COMPLETE TAKING AWAY OF BOTH, OF MAN AND SITUATION."
What is the difference between you and the other person? -- a certain situation. You were born into a different family; that is a situation. You were educated in a different school; that is a situation. What is different between man and man, man and woman? -- just a situation.
Rinzai is saying, THE COMPLETE TAKING AWAY OF BOTH, OF MAN AND SITUATION. HERE IS EXPERIENCED ABSOLUTE NOT-NESS. He is not using the word `nothingness' because you misunderstand it. To emphasize that it is not nothingness, he says it is simply not-ness, it is pure emptiness.
... SINCE SELF AND OBJECT ALLOW THEMSELVES TO COME TO NOTHING.
Everything comes to relax into nothing, and then arises, rejuvenated,
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