The Dunce
There was once a great Chinese Zen master named, Matsouil, who lived back in the 16th century.
He lived to a good old age of 76. On his deathbed, one of his students asked him to say a few last words to them.
Matsouil said that he was not worthy of uttering any profound last words to them, his students, but he did wink at them once, while pointing his nose at the cow out of the window, then he died, saying the word, “mu”.
The students took care of his body, and later, on their removing his pillow, they found there a poem, that had been hidden underneath it, for who knows how long.
None of the students had seen the old master writing it, during his lengthy last illness, and whilst he lay ill, on his deathbed.
It read like this.
Not dead yet, not dead.
Dead now, or just not in sight?
This cow still goes “mu”.
The student after he had finished reading this to his fellow students, then absent-mindedly, turned the small scrap of paper over.
On the back was written just this one word, “Why?”
The word “mu” says it all, as it sits in the middle of a “yes” or a “no” answer, and so it is a valid answer to every question, even to the short one-word question, “why”.
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It is Guru Ma privilege to bring people out of their rational thinking habits, and into the “mindlessness” state. He tried various ways so that people can break their logical and rational thinking habits. A typical method of attaining spiritual enlightenment to arrive at a state of mind that transcends reason and logic. The privilege to break the habit of logical and rational thinking.
Yes, thanks.
She, (Guru Ma) is known as the graceful guru, I believe. Things like meditation, journal writing, visualisation, even our nightly dreams, can help us to break free of our mind’s view too, to see other possible views.
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I have heard it said that there are some questions with no answers, and so sometimes it’s better not to try to find an answer, as it only ever takes us further away from the truth
Questions have their use, but somewhere along the line, enough questions applied too the truth tend to hold it into your own positional viewing of it, instead of it being free to take you past all of your questions to the real truth underneath every question, and that is simply that the cow goes moo, because it goes moo.
Things are just as they are, because that’s the way that they are, and sometimes it is best to accept this, instead of plying things with too many questions.
Thanks, yeh it was a bit humorous, in its way.
Omg Hahaha! Nice work..
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very interesting post !
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haha nice post! It made me think about how would I take his answer 🙂
I have heard it said that there are some questions with no answers, and so sometimes it’s better not to try to find an answer, as it only ever takes us further away from the truth
Questions have their use, but somewhere along the line, enough questions applied too the truth tend to hold it into your own positional viewing of it, instead of it being free to take you past all of your questions to the real truth underneath every question, and that is simply that the cow goes moo, because it goes moo.
Things are just as they are, because that’s the way that they are, and sometimes it is best to accept this, instead of plying things with too many questions.