The artist should have asked Hdgen to paint a picture with his no-hand, his no-mind, or his hand-mind. This seems rather bad manners on the part of Hdgen. When he had finished looking at it, Hdgen said, “Did you paint this with your hand or your mind?” The artist answered, “With my mind.” Hdgen said, “What is this mind of yours?” The artist had no answer. A non-Buddhist presented Hdgen with a screen with a picture painted on it. Not to repeat is against all the order of nature, and of art. “Vain repetitions, such as the heathen use,” like namuamidabutsu, are mere self-hypnosis. Further, just as only God can be worshipped, so re¬ petition of infinity and eternity is the only real repeti¬ tion. What is important is the repetition, and what is repeated one is nothing without the other. Hogen was famous for his repetition, and Shuzan tried it on Hogen himself, but without effect. Shuzan was the spiritual son of Jizo he comes, together with Jizo, in the 12th Case of the Shoyoroku. The state of Zen does not, of course, cover all these cases, and an “en¬ lightened” man may be spoiled by his native and ineradicable insensitivity or stupidity. The slightest touch of egoism, senti¬ mentality, cruelty, snobbery, vulgarity (all the same thing) and everything done is spoiled. It means that people are either good or bad, actions are either perfect or imperfect there is nothing between. Hdgen 72 Hogen’s quotation is from the Shinjinmei,5 It means that the greatest music, played just a little out of tune or out of time is as bad as, or even worse than, cacophony. What do you think of this?” Shuzan said, “A hair’s breadth of difference, and they are Heaven and Earth apart.” Hogen said, “What’s the use of talk¬ ing like that?” Shuzan said, “That’s all I can say how about you?” Hogen said, “A hair’s breadth of dif¬ ference, and they are Heaven and Earth apart.” Shuzan made obeisance to him. I, II, IV, V A SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE HUMOUR IN ENGLISH LITERATURE -A Chronological Anthology- EASY POEMS I, II HOW TO READ ENGLISH POETRY DOROTHY WORDSWORTH’S JOURNALS (With Introduction and footnotes) A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVER (Shortened, with Introduction and Notes) Two Moons, by Sengai » z ft “A hair’s breadth of difference, and they are Heaven and Earth apart. I, II SENRYU JAPANESE LIFE AND CHARACTER IN SENRYU EDO SATIRICAL VERSE ANTHOLOGIES ORIENTAL HUMOUR ZEN IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ORIENTAL CLASSICS ZEN AND ZEN CLASSICS Vols. ZEN AND ZEN CLASSICS Volume Two NUNC COGNOSCO EX PARTE TRENT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PRESENTED BY THE JAPAN FOUNDATION Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation From The Japan Foundation ZEN AND ZEN CLASSICS Volume Two By R.
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