Hot And Cold

Anecdotes

oi-Staff

By Staff

Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 13:45

Is it possible to escape cold and heat ? A beautiful Zen story reveals the truth with its usual sublimity and profundity.

A monk put forward a question to Zen Master Tozan "How can we escape heat and cold?'

Tozan replied : "Why not go where there is no cold and heat'

The monk was visibly puzzled. He asked in utter surprise : " Is there a place like that?'

Tozan replied " When cold become completely cold and when feeling hot become throughly hot'

The idea of what is called "Going beyond' is what is expressed crisply and clearly the Zen way.