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-- HE WENT WANDERING IN THE MOUNTAINS. ON HIS RETURN HE SUDDENLY BEGAN TO WEEP.
Note the point, that he suddenly began to weep. There was no reason at all.
ONE OF HIS FELLOW MONKS SAID, "ARE YOU THINKING OF YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER?"
"NO," SAID HYAKUJO.
"DID SOMEBODY SLANDER YOU?" ASKED THE MONK.
"NO," ANSWERED HYAKUJO.
"THEN WHAT ARE YOU WEEPING FOR?" PERSISTED THE MONK.
Why? That is the question mind goes on persisting in. For the mind, everything has to be based on a certain reason, a cause. Mind does not allow anything without reason, without causality. And because of this persistence, mind misses the most essential question of your own being: why you are.
You can look here and there. Perhaps somebody will tell you why you are. But nobody in the whole history of consciousness has been able to say why he is. All that you can do is shrug your shoulders: I am, there is no question of why.
Hyakujo was right in telling the monk, "GO AND ASK THE MASTER."
THE MONK WENT AND ASKED BASO.
BASO SAID, "GO BACK AND ASK HYAKUJO."
THE MONK CAME BACK TO THE ROOM AND FOUND HYAKUJO LAUGHING.
Now this is too much for the reasonable mind, this is absurd... Now look, the rains are trying to stop. This is not right. Just before they were at their peak and now they are becoming silent to participate in your silence.
But there is no why. You cannot ask the bamboos; you cannot ask the roses; you cannot ask any living being. Life simply is. Sometimes it weeps, sometimes it laughs, and when it weeps without any reason, weeping is a tremendous cleansing. And when it laughs without reason, the laughing reaches to a deeper point in your being. Like an arrow it hits to the very heart of you and your existence.
THE MONK WENT AND ASKED BASO, WHO SAID, "GO AND ASK HYAKUJO."
THE MONK CAME BACK TO THE ROOM AND FOUND HYAKUJO LAUGHING.
"YOU WERE WEEPING A LITTLE WHILE AGO; WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING NOW?"
The monk must have been a man of intellectual merit, a professor.
HYAKUJO SAID, "I WAS WEEPING A LITTLE WHILE AGO AND NOW I AM LAUGHING."
What is the problem? This
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