Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

A Zen student got angry at his Zen Master and told him that he was leaving his monastery.

The ZM asked him why he was so angry. The student said, "I've been here for two years and you've never in all that time revealed to me the secret truth." The teacher feigned astonishment and said, "How can you say that? When you called my name, didn't I answer? When it was time to wash the dishes, didn't I hand you the dishrag? And when you bowed to me, didn't I return your bow?" Upon hearing these words the student had a significant enlightenment experience. The truth is so obvious that it is constantly overlooked.