ON ONE OCCASION SEIGEN COMMENTED TO SEKITO, ”SOME SAY THAT AN INTELLIGENCE COMES FROM THE SOUTH OF THE LING.”
SEKITO SAID, ”THERE IS NO SUCH INTELLIGENCE FROM ANYBODY.”
SEIGEN SAID, ”IF NOT, WHENCE ARE ALL THOSE SUTRAS OF THE TRIPITAKA?”
SEKITO SAID, ”THEY ALL COME OUT OF HERE, AND THERE IS NOTHING WANTING.”
ON SEIGEN’S DEATH, SEKITO WENT TO MOUNT NANGAKU. FINDING A LARGE, FLAT ROCK, HE BUILT A HUT, AND FROM THENCE FORWARD CAME TO BE KNOWN AS ”STONEHEAD,” AND LATER, WHEN HE WAS A MASTER, AS ”STONEHEAD OSHO.”
HEARING OF SEKITO LIVING ON A ROCK, THE MASTER, NANGAKU, SENT A YOUNG MONK TO HIM, SAYING, ”GO TO THE EAST AND EXAMINE IN DETAIL THE MONK SITTING ON THE STONE-HEAD. IF HE IS THE MONK WHO CAME THE OTHER DAY, ADDRESS HIM. AND IF HE REPLIES, YOU RECITE TO HIM THE FOLLOWING SONG, ‘YOU ARE SITTING SO PROUDLY ON THE STONE, IT IS BETTER TO COME TO ME.’”
THE ATTENDANT MONK WENT TO SEKITO AND RECITED THIS SONG. SEKITO REPLIED, ”EVEN IF YOU CRIED TEARS OF SORROW, I WOULD NEVER EVER CROSS OVER THE HILLS.”
THE MONK CAME BACK AND MADE A REPORT TO NANGAKU. NANGAKU SAID, ”THIS MONK WILL SURELY MAKE THE MOUTH OF THE PEOPLE TREMBLE FOR GENERATIONS.”
God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth 62 ♡♥Osho♡♥
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