Zen koan: A simple zen koan becomes hatched in the student
By emptychair
@innertalks (23740)
Australia
September 9, 2020 12:04am CST
The Zen master asked his students:
What is the noise of a chook clucking got to do with a rooster crowing?
The students all took turns to answer, until one student didn't offer any answer at all, but going to the monastery pantry, he came out again, holding an egg.
This was his answer.
"Good", the master said,
"Did you lay that one, just for me?"
The student dropped the egg, and laid another one in his heart, being instantly enlightened, even as his egg dropped, both of them.
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Do not be too chicken to lay your own eggs, or to fetch them if you are a rooster.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
9 Sep 20
In every question i life, there's an answer, immediate or no answer at all.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
9 Sep 20
Yes, and sometimes the answer pops out in a surprising way, but only if we are open to receiving it like that.
@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
10 Sep 20
@innertalks You're right. We should be ready and be sensitive to grasp the answer. It's the still small voice dictating us but if you don't know how to detect it you will miss it.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
10 Sep 20
@Nakitakona If we keep the "ears" of our heart listening close to God, we should hear that voice then at most times.
Sometimes, though, I also ask God to talk to me, when I feel the need.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
9 Sep 20
This is generally true, I think, but we also need to grow in awareness enough for us to be able to recognise what are our responsibilities, and to own them, and even to want to take them on board too.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
10 Sep 20
@Shiva49 Yes, we need both sides of us (inner and outer) firing on all cylinders to live a full life, as God, perhaps wants us to live too.
@Shiva49 (28385)
• Singapore
10 Sep 20
@innertalks Yes, for that we need to embrace a spiritual life though clothed in a human body to survive the elements here.
When we lead a life in conflict with our inner knowing, we can never be on the right path - siva
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