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Blog: Pay Attention |
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Hallo... last year, I attended a
zen author's book reading and he told us this story...
An American scholar went to Japan and met with a zen master, who was
also famous as a calligrapher. He asked the master to write down the
best wisdom on a scroll for him to take back to America. The master
took his paint brush and drew a Japanese character on a scroll. The
scholar asked him what it meant and he replied, "Attention." So, the
scholar said, "Okay, but what does it mean?"
Then the master took his paint brush again and painted the same
character next to the first one. The scholar got a bit irritated and
said, "I can see that you have written Attention Attention but please
understand, that I have to take it with me to America and explain this
wisdom to those in academia, so what does it mean?"
The master again, took his paint brush and wrote the same character
for the third time. By now, the scholar was very irritated and said,
"I can see Attention Attention Attention, but what does it really
mean???" So, the master turned to the scholar and said, "It means,
simply Attention, pay Attention."
Nice, huh?
January 13th, 2005top |
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