ZEN KOANS-II

Call a short staff so,
And oppose its reality,
If you don't call it so,
You ignore a fact,
Shuzan, an epitome of confusion,
Gets confused between,
Reality and relativity.

No Hot, No Cold

How can we escape Heat and Cold?
A monk asked Tozan,
Tozan takes the question seriously,
The very essence of which is escapism,
And gives as stupid answer, as is the question
In cold, be thoroughly cool,
When hot, be hot through and through.

Bells And Robes

"The world is vast and wide,"
Why put on robes, at the,
Sound of a bell", asked Unmon
He is trying to catch the far world and,
Ignore the world just in front.

Returning to the ordinary

How does an enlightened man,
Return to the ordinary world?
The question from dim-witted
Which Kegon answered with exactly same wits,
Comparing an enlightened man to,
A broken mirror and a fallen flower

Everything Is Best

Every piece of meat in my shop is beat,
Banzan getting enlightened at the words of a butcher,
Does enlightenment need such eventuality?