Question

Did it ever happen to you to have made a question to your Master, Master Deshimaru, which make him angry or to which he wanted to give you no ther answer but silence? If so, which one?
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Answer from Master Kosen

He always wanted me to ask him questions, to do what he called "Mondo theater" and I did not stop myself, I always had questions to make and if he were still here, I would still have questions to make him.
Once I asked him; "Master because you are a Buddha and because you are awakened and because this world is the emanation of your own spirit, why is it so imperfect? ".
He said to me: - later you will understand...
And then, one day, I read in a sûtra that Sariputra had asked the same question to his Master, the Buddha Shakyamuni, and I got the answer.

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