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Chapter 4: Learn from the Peacocks
Question 8
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And the last question:
Question 8
WHY IS ZEN SO MUCH AGAINST SCRIPTURES? I HAVE LEARNT SO MUCH FROM THE BIBLE AND I AM EVER SO GRATEFUL TO IT -- HOW CAN THESE ZEN PEOPLE DARE TO SAY THAT THESE SCRIPTURES SHOULD BE BURNT?
Jesus! The Christian has not gone yet!
The Zen people are not against scriptures, they are against your mind. And when they say 'burn the scriptures' they are saying 'burn your mind'. The Zen people are not against scriptures -- why should they be against the poor scriptures? They are against knowledge, knowledgeability. They are against the constant hoarding of memory. They want you to be free of memory, they want you to be free of knowledge, they want you to come to a state of unlearning.
Burning the scriptures is just symbolic -- and Zen people are very down to earth. When they want to say a thing they say it very loudly because they know how deaf you are. They shout. They don't whisper because they know that even a shout is not going to be heard. This is just shouting. A Zen Master burning the scriptures is just shouting to you to show you what you should have done with your knowledge and with your scriptures.
And when they say 'burn the scriptures' they are asking you how you can understand the scriptures, how you can understand the Gospel without becoming a Jesus yourself? It is such a simple thing that a little intelligence. a very little intelligence, is needed to understand it. How can you understand the Gospel? How can you understand the Sermon on the Mount without becoming a Jesus? It is impossible. And whatsoever you understand will be a misunderstanding. It is better not to understand than to carry a misunderstanding because that very misunderstanding, will become a barrier to you.
How can you read the Gospel? And you say that you have been benefitted and that you are so grateful to it. How can you be benefitted? What will you understand? When you read a statement of Jesus you will interpret it. A statement made by a higher consciousness being interpreted by a lower consciousness is bound to be distorted. It is as if Einstein is delivering a talk on higher mathematics and you go to a primary school and you ask a child what he thinks about it. He will say something.... The case is not so distant because there is a possibility that a primary school student may understand a little bit of Albert Einstein's mathematics because the difference is quantitative, but it is impossible to understand a statement of Jesus or Buddha because the difference is qualitative. They are statements of a different dimension. Even with ordinary language you go on understanding what you interpret.
Listen to these few stories.
The fifth grade teacher noticed that little Johnny was depressed and wasn't doing his homework. So she had him stay after school.
'What's wrong, Johnny?' she asked sympathetically.
Finally he blurted it out, 'I'm in love with you,' he said, 'and I want to marry you.'
'Oh, Johnny,' she smiled, 'I want to get married some day, but I don't want a child.'
'That's okay,' he said, 'I'll be careful.'
The second story.
An Alabama Democrat had campaigned for and won a seat in the House of representatives. In appreciation he introduced a bill to build a bridge across Calahassas Creek back home.
A Republican congressman became indignant. 'There is no need for a bridge across that creek,' he shouted. 'That creek is so small that I could stand on one side of it and urinate halfway across.'
The Speaker of the House banged with his gavel and exclaimed, 'You're out of order!'
'You're damned right, I'm out of order!' retorted the Republican. 'If I wasn't I would be able to urinate all the way across that damned creek!'
It depends on you.
The third story.
The cute and efficient young maid employed by the congressman and his wife seemed to enjoy her work until one day, without warning, she gave notice.
'Why do you wish to leave?' the lady of the house asked her. 'Is there anything wrong?'
'I just can't stand the suspense in this house a minute more,' the maid replied.
'Suspense?' said the confused mistress. 'What do you mean?'
'It's the sign over my bed,' the girl explained. 'You know the one that says: "Watch ye, for ye know not when the Master cometh."'
And the last.
A travelling salesman decided to spend the night in a small town out West. After a few drinks at the hotel bar, he loosened up and began spouting his political opinions.
'I tell you,' he shouted, 'President Ford is a horse's arse!'
At this a six-foot cowboy stalked over to him and said, 'Mister, them's fighting words around here!'
I'm sorry, sir,' stammered the salesman, 'I didn't realise that this was Ford country.'
'It ain't,' growled the giant. 'This here is horse country.'
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