Wednesday, May 30, 2012

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE KOAN

A nice koan of global climate change, of global warming, is case 29 of the Blue Cliff Record:


Daizui It Goes Along With It

A monk asked Daizui,
  "When the whole universe will be destroyed in great fire at the end of the eon,  I wonder if 'this' will also be destroyed or not." Daizui said, "Destroyed." The monk said, "Then this goes along with it?" Daizui said, "This goes along."

A later Master was asked,"When the whole universe will be destroyed in great fire at the end of the eon,  I wonder if 'this' will also be destroyed or not." The Master said, "Not destroyed." Then he was asked, "Why isn't it destroyed?" The Master said, "Because it is the same as the universe."