Talk Less To Realize

Anecdotes

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By Staff

Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 18:35

Jiun, a Shingon master, was a noted Sanskrit scholar of the Tokugawa era. When he was young he often gave lectures to his fellow students. His mother who heard about this wrote to him a letter.

Jiun's mother's letter read thus : "Son, I do not think you became a devotee of the Buddha because you desire to turn into a walking dictionary for others. There is no end to information and commentation, glory and honour. I wish you would stop this lecture business. Shut yourself up in a little temple in a remote part of the mountain. Devote your time to meditation and in this way attain true realization."