Old Woman in the Audience

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An old woman heard one of my talks and went home and began to practice in her kitchen. Years later her son told me she had become a Buddha there. I never knew her name; the dharma did.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Bankei Yotaku

Lineage: Rinzai

By Bankei Yotaku

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• The Unborn Buddha Mindsermon
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Sources

• contentBankei Zen: Translations from the Record of Bankei

  Peter Haskel (trans.)