Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site tpvax.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!intelca!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!fluke!inc From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Ensign Benson, Time Cadet) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Ancients predict USENET Message-ID: <700@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 19:28:58 EDT Article-I.D.: tpvax.700 Posted: Fri Sep 20 19:28:58 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 03:29:45 EDT Distribution: net Organization: The Digital Circus, Sector R Lines: 40 Keywords: Zen, Tenai, Japan, Buddha, Diddly-thump. Keychain: Mahatma Ghandi, Benjamin Disraeli, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Chaingang: Chang Kai Shek, Simon Bolivar, Rodney Dangerfield Gang of Four: 44444444444 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** *** CATCH THIS ONE WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, BUD *** For those who read .biz* rather than .general: > 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. ----- #71 in 101 Zen Stories. Paul Reps, editor. >>> and he was *right* by Jimminy! And not right. -- Ensign Benson -Time Cadet- _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-The Digital Circus, Sector R-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com