Zen in a beggar’s Life || Acharya Prashant, on Zen Koan (2018)

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Video Information: Advait Learning Camp, 30.09.2018, Lucknow, India

Context:

What is Zen?
How can a disciple come close to Guru?
How to understand Zen?
What does it mean by 'Zen in a beggar's bowl'?
How to read and reflect on Zen Koans?
What is Zen meditation?
How to practice Zen?
How to understand Zen stories and parables?

Music Credits: Milind Date
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Zen Koan:
Zen Koan: Zen in a Beggar’s Life

Tosui was a well-known Zen teacher of his time. He had lived in several temples and taught in various provinces.
The last temple he visited accumulated so many adherents that Tosui told them he was going to quit the lecture business entirely. He advised them to disperse and to go wherever they desired. After that no one could find any trace of him.
Three years later one of his disciples discovered him living with some beggars under a bridge in Kyoto. He at one implored Tosui to teach him.
“If you can do as I do for even a couple of days, I might,” Tosui replied.
So the former disciple dressed as a beggar and spent a day with Tosui. The following day one of the beggars died. Tosui and his pupil carried the body off at midnight and buried it on a mountainside. After that they returned to their shelter under the bridge.
Tosui slept soundly the remainder of the night, but the disciple could not sleep. When morning came Tosui said: “We do not have to beg food today. Our dead friend has left some over there.” But the disciple was unable to eat a single bite of it.
“I have said you could not do as I,” concluded Tosui. “Get out of here and do not bother me again.” .