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SOURCE: PALIDES via BAR2FER
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Learning to be silent | The
pupils of the Tendai school used to study meditation before Zen entered Japan.
Four of them who were intimate friends promised one another to observe seven
days of silence. On the first day all were
silent. Their meditation had begun auspiciously, but when night came and the
oil lamps were growing dim one of the pupils could not help exclaiming to a
servant: "Fix those lamps." The second pupil was
surprised to hear the first one talk. "We are not supposed to say a
word," he remarked. "You two are stupid. Why
did you talk?" asked the third. "I am the only one who
has not talked," concluded the fourth pupil.
ZEN KOAN FROM ASHIDAKIM
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