Master of the New Monastery

Ep. 5 Beloved master, hyakujo called his monks together as he wished to send one of them to open a new monastery. Placing a filled water jar on the ground, he said, "who can say what this is without using its name?" the chief monk, who expected to get the position, said, "no one can call it a wooden shoe." another monk said, "it's not a pond because it can be carried." the cooking monk, who was standing nearby, walked out, kicked the jar over, and then walked away. Hyakujo smiled and said, "the cooking monk becomes the master of the new monastery." Season 4 Using traditional Zen stories and responding to seekers' questions, Acharya shows how man must first be grounded in himself before he can fly into the sky of consciousness. Acharya takes the reader from subjects as diverse as food, jealousy, businessmen and enlightenment, to how to know if one needs a master, the barriers we create through fear, and gratitude. "Be rooted in the earth so that you can stretch to the sky; be rooted in the visible so that you can reach into the invisible. Don't create duality and don't create any antagonism. If I am against anything, I am against antagonism. I am against being against anything; I am for the whole, the complete circle. The world and God are not divided anywhere. There is no boundary: the world goes on spreading into God and God goes on spreading into the world. Really, to use two words is not good but language creates problems. We say the creator and the created, we divide. Language is dualistic; in reality there is no created and no creator, only creativity, only a process of infinite creativity. Nothing is divided. Everything is one -- undivided."