Not Far From Buddhahood
A university student
while visiting GaSan asked him: "Have
you even read the Christian Bible?"
"No, read it to me," said GaSan.
The
student opened the Bible and read from St. Matthew:
"And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the
field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto
you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these... Take
therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the
things of itself."
GaSan said: "Whoever uttered those words I consider
an enlightened man."
The
student continued reading:
"Ask and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall find, knock and
it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that
seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened."
GaSan
remarked:
"That is excellent. Whoever said
that is not far from Buddhahood."
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