[Buddha-l] Squashed Prostrations

[Jim Peavler]

On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:36 AM, curt wrote:

> This is starting to remind me of an old Zen saying: "squash vines  
> entangling squash vines."
> - Curt


This reminds me of some drawings in a by the Japanese Roshi baned  
Uchayamma (or something) in a book called Opening the Hand of  
Thought. In the first drawing there are a bunch of angry, yelling  
squash. In the next drawing the squash are sitting in zazen. In the  
third they discover they are all growing from the same vine and have  
big smiles.

Pretty stupid thing for a squash to be doing if you ask me. They  
apparently didn't realize that squash sit in zazen all the time.  
There is nothing else they can do.


Jim Peavler
jmp at peavler.org