Sekiri One Sandal

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Daruma carrying one sandal
Sekiri Daruma

靴を持っている達磨さん：隻履達磨


THE LEGEND tells that Bodhidharma crossed the Yangtse River on a reed and travelled to northern China. There he settled at the Shaolin Monastery and transmitted the patriarchy to Hui Ko. Soon afterwards Bodhidharma died in 528. A few years after his death, a Chinese official reported that he had encountered Bodhidharma in the mountains of Central Asia.
Bodhidharma was then carrying a staff; a single sandal was hanging from it. He told that he was on his way back to India. When this story reached his Chinese home, fellow monks decided to open Bodhidharma's tomb.
Inside there was only one sandal.


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The story somehow continues in Japan.
When Shootoku Taishi walked along the village of Kataoka, he met a poor man and gave him a purple cloth. But the man died the next day. When they opened his grave, there was no body found, just the purple cloth folded nicely.

"This must have been Daruma, the Founder of Zen" was the verdict of Shootoku Taishi.
So "It takes a holy man to recognize another holy man!"


. Shotoku Taishi and Daruma
聖徳太子とだるま


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Here you can see him carrying his sandal
and the sutras in his shoulder bag!








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Bodhidharma
Putidamo (chin.), Bodhidaruma (jap.), Indian monk, living i China in VI century and cosiders as foundator of school Ch'an. Halflegendar person and surrounded with many myths. After arriving to China at year 520, he was received by Emperor Wu who had many merrits for Buddhism because of foundating of Buddhist temples and helping to monks.

During talking, emperor asked: which merits do you have? --
Bodhidharma said: "none".
Then the emperor asked:
what is the heart of the Buddhism? He answered:

"Only emptiness -- none sanctity".

After the meeting with emperor, Bodhidharma went to Shaolin monastery, where he spent nine years facing to rock wall. Probably he return to India but before the departure pointed out his successor Huike who is considered as the second patriarch of Ch'an.

The rest is legend in curriculum vitae of Bodhidharma. Therefore this that he swam across the river Yangtse on the leaf of rush, that he invented the tea which grew from his eye-lashes, when he cut them after he fell asleep during the meditation. He discovered the art of fighting Kung-fu. Another version told he was died when he was 150 and he was buried in Mountain Henan. Some his disciple told he met him going with one sandal. When his tomb was dug out, it was found just only one sandal.
© http://rdewi.fm.interia.pl/mahasiddhas.htm

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Emperor Wu and Daruma

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only one sandal
for the long road to enlightenment -
Daruma on his way


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Daruma
carrying one sandal -
only emptiness

- Shared by Freddy Ben-Arroyo -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013



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