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This poor scholar does not know that to meet Baso once is to meet your death. That’s how the
ancients have defined the function of a master. It is not to teach you, but to kill you: it is not to impart
knowledge to you, but simply to take away all knowledge from you. Even the very sense of ‘I’ has to
disappear.
The scholar was not aware that meeting Baso once is enough, twice will be too much. He asked
him, ”WHAT SUTRA ARE YOU LECTURING ON?”
THE MIND SUTRA.”
Baso replied, ”BY WHAT DO YOU LECTURE?”
RYO ANSWERED, ”WITH MIND.”
BASO SAID, ”THE MIND IS LIKE AN ACTOR, THE MEANING LIKE A JESTER, THE SIX SENSES
LIKE AN ACQUAINTANCE; HOW CAN THE MIND LECTURE ON A SUTRA?”
Mind cannot speak, it can not even with a single finger indicate the ultimate. All that mind is doing
is a controlled, relevant gibberish – on the surface looking very silent, inside a madhouse. This
madhouse cannot say a single word about the truth; it knows nothing, although it plays the game as
if it knows.
RYO RETORTED, ”IF MIND CANNOT LECTURE, CAN’T NO-MIND?”
Just a logical, intellectual question, not authentic, not coming from his own experience… Because
Baso says mind cannot speak on the truth, logically it can be asked, ”Do you think then no-mind can
speak?”
BASO REPLIED, ”YES, NO-MIND CAN LECTURE ALL RIGHT.”
RYO DUSTED HIS SLEEVES AND BEGAN TO TAKE HIS DEPARTURE