Zen Master Wu Bong (Jacob Perl) at his transmission ceremon

Wu Bong Poep Mu Sunim, Zen Master, 1950-2013 (Perl, Jacob)

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5 Hj 
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Zen Master Wu Bong 
(Jacob Perl) at his 
transmission ceremony 
stirring the rice, hit the vision, and shouted, "Why do you 
dirty the monks' soup?" WHACK! Later he became a 
great Zen Master. 
If you lose your eyes, you lose your life. Get One eyes, 
and you get everything. Let's consider what is True Eye. 
Watch carefully. 
(Striking the table with his Zen stick.) 
Do you hear that? Then this stick, this sound, and 
your mind: Are they the same or different? 
KATZ! 
Listen. In the corner, the fan: "shhhhhlihhhhh." 
An eminent teacher said, "The gate of Zen is very 
wide. Very easy." Our teacher says, "Only put down your 
idea and your opinion, then you become complete." But, 
"Put down your idea and your opinion" does not mean 
that you must lose your eyes. 
Two stories: 
Once a monk went to do a solo retreat. In the middle 
of the retreat a great bodhisattva appeared at night and 
said, "You are a great monk. You have special power. 
Tomorrow you must go to the nearby ledge. Only 
believe. Only trust When you jump, you will be able to 
fly in the air." The next morning this monk went to the 
ledge, jumped, and died. 
Once, when other monks in the temple were practic­
ing, a monk was cooking rice in a big pot. At that time, 
in the steam, a great bodhisattva appeared and said to him, 
"You are a great monk. You have special power." Hear­
ing this, the monk took the big ladle with which he was 
(Striking the table with his Zen stick.) 
Long ago Buddha told Shariputra, "No eyes." So 
perhaps to get this True Eye, you must lose your 
eyes. If you have no eyes, however, how do you get 
True Eye? 
(Striking the table with his Zen stick.) 
Our honored guest here [Maha Ghosananda] says 
that your eyes are always eating. Eating eyes. 
What kind of eating? I don't understand. Maybe 
eating form. Maybe eating color. Then how do 
they digest? What kind of eye is that? 
(Striking the table with his Zen stick.) 
At a talk, agreatZen Master pointed to his Zen stick 
and said, 'This stick has special eyes. They can see 
through everything. Even see into your mind." 
Maybe that is the True Eye. But what kind of eye 
is that? 
All these are wonderful ideas, but just now how do 
you get this True Eye? 
KATZ! 
Please look. 
(Lifting the Zen stick above his head.) 
This stick is brown. 
Thank you very much. ® 
6 PRIMARY POINT Spring 1994 


This stick is brown

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