File Name: 63-03-00
Friday, March 1, 1963
from Wind Bell,
COMMENTARY BY MASTER SHUNRYU SUZUKI ON MODEL SUBJECT 19 FROM THE "BLUE CLIFF RECORDS" Gutei's lifting up one finger: Gutei lived in a small hermitage to be free from the fierce persecution of the first part of the ninth century, A.D. in China. One day a nun named Jissai came to visit him, entering with her hat on her head and her pilgrim staff in her hand. She looked around the seat where Gutei was sitting and said, "I will take off my pilgrimage hat, if you give me a satisfactory statement.” ... Read Transcript (this version is updated and corrected at times. Any other transcripts below are not).