The Reading:
Shoyoroku - Case 25: Enkan's "Rhinoceros Fan" [1]
Shoyoroku - Case 25: Enkan's "Rhinoceros Fan" [1]
One day, Enkan called to his attendant, "Bring me the rhinoceros fan." The attendant said, "It is broken." Enkan said, "If the fan is already broken, bring me the rhinoceros himself." The attendant gave no answer. Shifuku drew a circle and wrote the ideograph "ox [3]" in it.
[1]: see case 91 of Hekiganroku.
[2]: Wansong: In various places they say on the fan was drawn a rhinoceros gazing at the moon; some say the fan was made of rhinoceros horn, some say it had a rhinoceros handle. All of these could be called rhinoceros fans.
[2]: Wansong: In various places they say on the fan was drawn a rhinoceros gazing at the moon; some say the fan was made of rhinoceros horn, some say it had a rhinoceros handle. All of these could be called rhinoceros fans.
[3]: The Chinese character for "ox" (gyu) is one of the two characters for "rhinoceros" (saigyu = sai + gyu).
Discussion:
If you hold to tightly to what is before you, how can you look behind? If you are always looking behind, how can you avoid falling over the rhinoceros?
Discussion:
If you hold to tightly to what is before you, how can you look behind? If you are always looking behind, how can you avoid falling over the rhinoceros?
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