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"Let others criticize me, let them condemn me. Trying to set the sky on fire, they will just end up exhausted. I hear abusive words as though I were drinking ambrosia: Everything melts, and suddenly I enter the Inconceivable." -- Zen Master Yung-chia
 
Rumi's Zen

I have lived on the lip of insanity,
wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door.

It opens. I've been knocking
from the inside.

- Rumi
 
The following is a piece from a Dharma Combat after which Myo Ji Sunim became a master:

Q: We have known each other a long time. But still I don't know one thing. In Korea there is a huge painting, bigger than here, and there's many bodhisattvas and Buddhas. I want to know which one is you?
MJSN: .............................................
Q: Thank you for your teaching.

If you were Zen Sensei Myo Ji Sunim, how would you answer the questioner?
 
Since there is only the Buddha-Mind, I would probably say, 'all are me and yet none are' or something like that.
 
Q: We have known each other a long time. But still I don't know one thing. In Korea there is a huge painting, bigger than here, and there're many bodhisattvas and Buddhas. I want to know which one is you?
MJSN: You ask me a question and I answer you.
Q: Thank you for your teaching.
 
Q: Last time you came to Germany, Arne and I were there and we translated for you from German to English, and your English to German. But next time, maybe Arne and I will not be there, and no one will be there to translate for you. How will you teach the truth then?
MJSN: You already understand.
Q: A little bit more.
MJSN: ........................................................
Q: ...................................................
 
Limbo said:
I have lived on the lip of insanity,
wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door.

It opens. I've been knocking
from the inside.

- Rumi
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What kind of eejit knocks on a door from the inside? Locked himself in and lost the key?
 
Q: Last time you came to Germany, Arne and I were there and we translated for you from German to English, and your English to German. But next time, maybe Arne and I will not be there, and no one will be there to translate for you. How will you teach the truth then?
MJSN: You already understand.
Q: A little bit more.
MJSN: Danke.
Q: Danke.
 
Next student while becoming a master. This is how he responded:

Q: I was noticing during the ceremony that Olivia kind of wanders off and then returns to her mother, and also Justine is sitting with her father, and Kimball is sitting with his mother. So, how do children know to return to their parents?
PPSN: .................................................................
Q: I don't know!
PPSN: .........................................................
Q: Okay.

Let's check your wisdom. You are this master, what is the right answer? Tell me! Tell me!
 
nowornever said:
Next student while becoming a master. This is how he responded:

Q: I was noticing during the ceremony that Olivia kind of wanders off and then returns to her mother, and also Justine is sitting with her father, and Kimball is sitting with his mother. So, how do children know to return to their parents?
PPSN: .................................................................
Q: I don't know!
PPSN: .........................................................
Q: Okay.

Let's check your wisdom. You are this master, what is the right answer? Tell me! Tell me!
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Cheep! Cheep!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbkeiVr03P8
 
Q: I was noticing during the ceremony that Olivia kind of wanders off and then returns to her mother, and also Justine is sitting with her father, and Kimball is sitting with his mother. So, how do children know to return to their parents?
PPSN: Where do your parents live?
Q: I don?t know!
PPSN: Well, when you find out, come ask me again.
Q: Okay.
 
Next chance to check your wisdom:

Q: Hi, I have a friend from Las Vegas. When I first met him I didn't know that people actually lived in Las Vegas, and so I said, How can you live in Las Vegas? And he said, Oh no, it's okay, there are plenty of normal people there. And I don't know you at all, so how can you show me that you're normal, one of the normal ones?
PPSN: ...............................................................
Q: Thank you.

You are the master. What do you say to the questioner?
 
nowornever said:
Next chance to check your wisdom:

Q: Hi, I have a friend from Las Vegas. When I first met him I didn't know that people actually lived in Las Vegas, and so I said, How can you live in Las Vegas? And he said, Oh no, it's okay, there are plenty of normal people there. And I don't know you at all, so how can you show me that you're normal, one of the normal ones?
PPSN: ...............................................................
Q: Thank you.

You are the master. What do you say to the questioner?
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"If you pull your trousers back up right now, I will not call the police."
 
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