Showing posts with label Hakuin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hakuin. Show all posts

Sunday, October 9, 2011

The Samurai & the Zen Master

"A Samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died.
Hakuin answered 'How am I supposed to know?'
'How do you not know? You're a Zen master!' exclaimed the samurai.
'Yes, but not a dead one,' Hakuin answered."
                                               --a Buddhist proverb--