A precursor...

This koan got me thinking tonight. A lot. I've started a post, but I want it to come out right when I actually put it up here. In the meantime, here's what got me thinking. If you'd like more thought provoking anecdotes, click the title of this post. It's am amazing collection of Zen parables.

A student of Tendai, a philosophical school of Buddhism, came to the Zen abode of Gasan as a pupil. When he was departing a few years later, Gasan warned him: "Studying the truth speculatively is useful as a way of collecting preaching material. But remember that unless you meditate constantly your light of truth may go out."