| |
I passed and graduated from his college, I told him that it was all just a joke. He said "What?!"
I said, "I have to tell you the truth, now you cannot harm me at all. I hate your Kali, and I say to you: Death to your Kali and you! You are perpetuating a murderous creed! Are you a cannibal? That woman is holding a man's head, freshly-cut, and blood is dripping."
He said, "But for two years continuously you were saying `Jai Kali! Victory to Kali!'"
I said, "I had to say it. I tried truth in many colleges; truth is expelled. I thought perhaps a lie would succeed, and it succeeded. This is my certificate, and it is based on a lie. You have lied, because I never came to the college. One hundred percent attendance you have given me, one hundred percent I was absent."
He became afraid I might expose him to the newspapers. He said, "Okay, okay. Cool down. You have your way, I have my own way."
I said, "That's right. Don't ever use the word `us'; that does not apply. I was just tolerating the situation for these two years to somehow get my graduation so I can move to some university far away from this city."
Where truth brings trouble, lies bring great fortunes, because the whole society lives on lies. Their God is a lie, their heaven is a lie, their hell is a lie, their devil is a lie. Their conception of morality is full of lies.
Surrounded by the ocean of lies, if you insist on being true, obviously you are going to get into trouble. But it is a joy. To get into trouble for the sake of truth is one of the greatest blessings one can think of.
AT ANOTHER TIME, HOJU, A DISCIPLE OF RINZAI, SAID TO TANKU, A FELLOW DISCIPLE, "WHEN A MAN COMES TO YOU WHO HAS NOT PUT AWAY THE SECOND AND THIRD ROOTS, HOW DO YOU RECEIVE HIM?"
The Second and Third Roots are the three poisons: desire, hate, ignorance.
The question was,
"WHEN A MAN COMES TO YOU WHO HAS NOT PUT AWAY THE SECOND AND THIRD ROOTS, HOW DO YOU RECEIVE HIM?"
TANKU RESPONDED, "YOU HAVE, IN BRINGING UP THIS QUESTION, ALREADY MADE A MISTAKE."
He is saying: A man who is full of poisons -- desire, hate, ignorance -- will not come to a master
|
|
|