{"id":327,"date":"2024-02-28T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-04-08T09:14:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:14:32","slug":"heaven-and-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/2024\/02\/28\/heaven-and-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven and hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;This is a zen koan.<\/p>\n<p>When you read this you will think that I too get angry that is hell.<\/p>\n<p>But real realization comes when you notice that anger comes out from nothing . \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>#\u0d9a\u0da9\u0dc0\u0dbb<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Heaven and hell<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A tough, brawny samurai once approached a Zen master who was deep in meditation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Impatient and discourteous, the samurai demanded in his husky voice so accustomed to forceful yelling, \u201cTell me the nature of heaven and hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Zen master opened his eyes, looked the samurai in the face, and replied with a certain scorn, \u201cWhy should I answer to a shabby, disgusting, despondent slob like you? A worm like you, do you think I should tell you anything? I can\u2019t stand you. Get out of my sight. I have no time for silly questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The samurai could not bear these insults. Consumed by rage, he drew his sword and raised it to sever the master\u2019s head at once.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Looking straight into the samurai\u2019s eyes, the Zen master tenderly declared, \u201cThat\u2019s hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The samurai froze. He immediately understood that anger had him in its grip. His mind had just created his own hell\u2014one filled with resentment, hatred, self-defense, and fury. He realized that he was so deep in his torment that he was ready to kill somebody.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The samurai\u2019s eyes filled with tears. Setting his sword aside, he put his palms together and obsequiously bowed in gratitude for this insight.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Zen master gently acknowledged with a delicate smile, \u201cAnd that\u2019s heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;This is a zen koan. When you read this you will think that I too get angry that is hell. But real realization comes when you notice that anger comes out from nothing . \ud83d\ude42 #\u0d9a\u0da9\u0dc0\u0dbb Heaven and hell A tough, brawny samurai once approached a Zen master who was deep in meditation. Impatient and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasaya007.icu\/das\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}