Dialogue 253 �gTo risk ones life�h There is Q & A called �gZen-mondou�h in Zen Buddhism. Zen master gives Q & A called �gZen-mondou�h to his disciple. Disciple is thinking desperately to find the right answer but he never finds it. He tries to submit many answers to master but master is always throwing back. Question never has answers. �gSound by one hand�h was the most famous Q & A called �gZen-mondou�h by master �gHakuin�h. He gave his disciple the question how to make a sound by one hand. This is quite impossible. Disciple thought of the question desperately. The target of master �gHakuin�h was to make his disciple think of �gdesperately�h. �gDesperately�h is to risk ones life. In another expression, To risk ones life is to accept ones death which is to get rid of fear of death. Finally, There is no problem if we can get rid of fear of death. This is the reason why I insist one of key-words, �ganxious, agony and finally fear of death�h. �gDesperately�h is to risk ones life. You should risk your life for homework. Then you could find out that �gI live a life with almost principle�h. Paradoxically saying, This is the proof that you had risked your life and you had accepted your death and you had gone beyond �ganxious, agony and finally fear of death�h and you had gone beyond �gdiscrimination, unfair and wars�h. Thinking very well, Other creatures and man�fs children are always risking their life. It is because they have neither �ganxious, agony and finally fear of death�h nor �gdiscrimination, unfair and wars�h.

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