Making  a bow to Hyakujo  he said, "I have  now been
　　   released  from  the fox  body, which  will  be found
　　   behind the mountain. I dare to make a request of the
　　   Master.  Please  bury  it  as you  would  a deceased
　　   monk." The Master  had the ino strike  the gavel and
　　   announce  to the monks that there would be a funeral
　　   for a deceased monk after the midday meal. The monks
　　   wondered, saying, "We are all in good health.  There
　　   is no sick monk in the Nirvana Hall.  What is it all
　　   about?"

　　   After  the meal the Master  led the monks  to a rock
　　   behind  the mountain, poked  out a dead fox with his
　　   staff, and cremated it.

　　   In the evening  the Master ascended  the rostrum  in
　　   the hall and told the monks  the whole story.  Obaku
　　   thereupon  asked, "The  old man failed  to give  the
　　   correct turning  words and was made to live as a fox
　　   for five  hundred  lives, you say;  if, however, his
　　   answer had not been incorrect  each time, what would
　　   he have become?" The Master  said, "Come  closer  to
　　   me, I'll tell you."  Obaku then stepped  forward  to
　　   Hyakujo  and slapped him.  The Master laughed aloud,
　　   clapping   his  hands,  and   said,  "I  thought   a
　　   foreigner's  beard  is red, but  I see that  it is a
　　   foreigner with a red beard."

　　　　  14.  Joshu Sasaki Roshi, Buddha is the Center of
　　   Gravity (San Cristobal, New Mexico: Lama Foundation,
　　   1974), pp. 70-71.

　　　　  15. Ibid., p. 47.

　　　　  16.  The  mistake  would  be eliminable  if  the
　　   relative  truth of the world were not given the kind
　　   of significance  it is by the "double truth" or "two
　　   truths" doctrine  in Mahaayaana  Buddhism.  That is,
　　   one  cannot  eliminate  the  mistaken  character  of
　　   relative  truth without  violating  the doctrine  in
　　   question.

　　　　  17. Nishiyama and Stevens, p. 149.

　　　　  18. Sasaki Roshi, p. 47.

　　　　  19.  "Even  those who have practiced  zazen  for
　　   just  one sitting  can find  all their  evil  karman
　　   erased." Daily, Sutras, p. 33.

　　　　  20. Because there is no distance between oneself
　　   and one's  karman, there  is also no possibility  of
　　   having opinions or views about one's karman.

　　　　  21. Shibayama Roshi, p. 35.

　　　　  22. Ibid.

　　　　  23. Ibid., p. 39.

　　　　  24.  Dogen  says: "If there is no transmigration