Then Bansho was given the saying of Chosha's to contemplate on:
"Turn yourself back into mountains,rivers and earth".
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Effort has a limitation: you get tired- that is the beauty of effort - otherwise you will never be enlightened.Any kind of effort, any anxiety has limitation.A moment comes , you say "Fuck it all!". That very moment is your enlightment.
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Basho wrote:
The evening haze.
Thinking of past things-
how far off they are.
Now is the time for .....
Barry Bugeyes is talking to his friend, Mervyn Mildew, over few drinks in the bar.
"How did you get on with your date last night?" asks Mervyn.
"Ah!", groans Barry "it was terrible. It was a tragic case of mistaken identity."
"Really? Mistaken identity ?" asks Mervyn. "What do you mean ?"
"Well," explains Barry," I took my date out to the most expensive restaurant in town. We went in and ordered a huge meal, but as soon as we started to eat, my date found a cockroach in her soup."
"How ghastly!" exclaims Mervyn."What did she do?"
"She stood up," says Barry ,"and shouted:'Waiter! Remove this insect' - and he threw me out on the street!"
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