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saying that you have got it, that you are enlightened.
A master's stick is awaited by the disciple for years, because he will hit you only if he knows that his hit is going to awaken you; or he will hit only when you are awakened as a reward. In the modern world it will not be at all understood. When, for the first time, Zen stories were translated, everybody thought that they were some kind of jokes.
They are not jokes. But because they were first translated by Christian missionaries, it was just to show to the world: "Look at the greatness of Christianity and look at these primitive people thinking that they are enlightened." But the whole thing misfired. These stories were translated by Christian missionaries to prove Christianity's superiority.
But in fact, these stories -- if understood, experienced -- simply prove that there cannot be anything superior to them. Their utter innocence... just look at the disciple dancing. Because he has got it! Just look at the master hitting the disciple as a reward.
This is possible only at the very heights of consciousness.
Man has progressed technologically, scientifically, but man has forgotten the language of his own being. There is progress in gadgets, but man is completely lost.
I want you to remember that your first task in life is to be fully, wholly aware of yourself. Because without being totally aware, you will never know the beauty and the splendor of this existence that surrounds you. You will never know your birth, your death. You will never really know that you ever lived.
Without being aware you are all somnambulists, walking in sleep, talking in sleep. And you have become so accustomed to your sleep that you can even do complicated things while you are completely asleep. You can be efficient in doing certain jobs while snoring within your being.
The whole world thinks that in the morning they wake up, and by the evening they go to sleep again. It is sheer nonsense. Once you wake up, you never go to sleep. So the waking in the morning is just fake, very superficial. You have to learn the authentic awakening.
SEPPO WAS SAYING GOOD-BYE TO TOZAN WHO
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