When It Is Hot, Be That. When It Is Cold, Be That.

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When It is Hot, Be Completely Hot
When It is Cold, Be Completely Cold
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Buddhist Teaching on Acceptance
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"One day a monk asked Great Master Tozan
Gohon, 'How can we avoid hot and cold?'
Tozan said, 'Why don't you go somewhere
that is neither hot nor cold?'
The monk asked, 'Where is a place that is neither hot nor cold?'
Tozan replied, 'When it is cold, be completely cold;
when it is hot, be completely hot.'"


I am wondering whether the ideas expressed in this short vignette are found in the meanings of patience, surrender and detachment as per the Wisdom of Guruji.



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