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Chapter 2
The Rise of Greek Civilization
MULTIPLE CHOICE
2. Some scholars have argued that because the civilizations of Crete reflected the
importance of women, they were more ________ than others.
A. tranquil
B. aggressive
C. artistic
D. philosophical
Answer: A
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Skill: Factual
Topic: The Bronze Age on Crete and on the Mainland to about 1150 B.C.E.
3. Some scholars have suggested that a group of pirates known as ________ destroyed
Pylos.
A. Miletus
B. Cnossus
C. Dorians
D. tholos
Answer: C
Page Ref: 36
Skill: Factual
Topic: The Bronze Age on Crete and on the Mainland to about 1150 B.C.E.
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5. Which of the following correctly identifies the four classes in Homeric society?
A. Mycenaeans, Minoans, slaves, and nobles
B. nobles, shepherds, thetes, and indentured servants
C. knights, landless laborers, thetes, and shepherds
D. nobles, thetes, landless laborers, and slaves
Answer: D
Page Ref: 38
Skill: Factual
Topic: The Greek “Middle Ages” to about 750 B.C.E.
7. Until defeated by the Roman legion, the dominant military force in the eastern
Mediterranean was the ________.
A. agora
B. citadel
C. hoplite phalanx
D. battalion
Answer: C
Page Ref: 41
Skill: Factual
Topic: The Polis
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8. Colonization encouraged trade, industry, and the manufacturing of items such as
________.
A. weapons, pottery, silks, and leather products
B. pottery, silks, weapons, and fine artistic metalwork
C. fine artistic metalwork, tools, pottery, and silks
D. tools, weapons, pottery, and fine artistic metalwork
Answer: D
Page Ref: 43
Skill: Factual
Topic: Expansion of the Greek World
9. Greek colonies, established for the good of the colonists, were sponsored by
________.
A. the colonists themselves
B. the mother city
C. rich merchants
D. nobility
Answer: B
Page Ref: 42
Skill: Factual
Topic: Expansion of the Greek World
11. By the time the last tyrants left, they were universally hated for their ________.
A. illegal dealings with land
B. cruelty and repression
C. dogmatic religious views
D. unfair laws for colonists
Answer: B
Page Ref: 43
Skill: Factual
Topic: Expansion of the Greek World
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THE TEN COW-HERDING PICTURES
THE TEN COW-HERDING PICTURES
[8.2]
During the Sung dynasty a Zen teacher called Seikyo illustrated
stages of spiritual progress by a gradual purification or whitening of the
cow until she herself disappears. But the pictures, six in number, are lost
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now. Those that are still in existence, illustrating the end of Zen
discipline in a more thorough and consistent manner, come from the
[8.3]
ingenious brush of Kakuan, a monk belonging to the Rinzai school.
His are in fact a revision and perfection of those of his predecessor. The
pictures are ten in number, and each has a short introduction in prose
followed by a commentary verse, both of which are translated below.
There were some other masters who composed stanzas on the same
subjects using the rhymes of the first commentator, and some of them are
found in the popular edition of “The Ten Cow-herding Pictures.”
The cow has been worshipped by the Indians from very early periods
of their history. The allusions are found in various connections in the
Buddhist scriptures. In a Hinayana Sutra entitled “On the Herding of
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Cattle,” eleven ways of properly attending them are described. In a
similar manner a monk ought to observe eleven things properly in order
to become a good Buddhist; and if he fails to do so, just like the cow-
herd who neglects his duties, he will be condemned. The eleven ways of
properly attending cattle are: 1. To know the colours; 2. To know the
signs; 3. Brushing; 4. Dressing the wounds; 5. Making smoke; 6.
Walking the right path; 7. Tenderly feeling for them; 8. Fording the
streams; 9. Pasturing; 10. Milking; 11. Selecting. Some of the items cited
here are not quite intelligible.
In the Saddharma-puṇḍarīka Sūtra, Chapter III., “A Parable,” the
Buddha gives the famous parable of three carts: bullock-carts, goat-carts,
and deer-carts, which a man promises to give to his children if they come
out of a house on fire. The finest of the carts is the one drawn by
bullocks or cows (goratha), which represents the vehicle for the
Bodhisattvas, the greatest and most magnificent of all vehicles, leading
them directly to the attainment of supreme enlightenment. The cart is
described thus in the Sutra: “Made of seven precious substances,
provided with benches, hung with a multitude of small bells, lofty,
adorned with rare and wonderful jewels, embellished with jewel wreaths,
decorated with garlands of flowers, carpeted with cotton mattresses and
woollen coverlets, covered with white cloth and silk, having on both
sides rosy cushions, yoked with white, very fair and fleet bullocks, led
by a multitude of men.”
Thus reference came to be made quite frequently in Zen literature to
the “white cow on the open-air square of the village,” or to the cow in
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general. For instance, Tai-an of Fu-chou asked Pai-chang, “I wish to
know about the Buddha, what is he?” Answered Pai-chang, “It is like
seeking for an ox while you are yourself on it.” “What shall I do after I
know?” “It is like going home riding on it.” “How do I look after it all
the time in order to be in accordance with [the Dharma]?” The master
then told him, “You should behave like a cowherd, who, carrying a staff,
sees to it that his cattle won’t wander away into somebody else’s rice-
fields.”
The “Ten Cow-herding Pictures” showing the upward steps of
spiritual training, is doubtless another such instance, more elaborate and
systematised than the one just cited.
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THE TEN STAGES OF SPIRITUAL COW-HERDING
I
face p. 357
Looking for the Cow. She has never gone astray, and what is the use
of searching for her? We are not on intimate terms with her because we
have contrived against our inmost nature. She is lost, for we have
ourselves been led out of the way through the deluding senses. The home
is growing farther away, and byways and crossways are ever confusing.
Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire; ideas of right and wrong
shoot up like a phalanx.
face p. 358
Seeing the Traces of the Cow. By the aid of the Sutras and by
inquiring into the doctrines, he has come to understand something, he
has found the traces. He now knows that things, however multitudinous,
are of one substance, and that the objective world is a reflection of the
self. Yet, he is unable to distinguish what is good from what is not, his
mind is still confused as to truth and falsehood. As he has not yet entered
the gate, he is provisionally said to have noticed the traces.
By the water, under the trees, scattered are the traces of the lost:
Fragrant woods are growing thick—did he find the way?
However remote, over the hills, and far away, the cow may
wander,
Her nose reaches the heavens and none can conceal it.
III
face p. 359
Seeing the Cow. He finds the way through the sound, he sees into the
origin of things, and all his senses are in harmonious order. In all his
activities, it is manifestly present. It is like the salt in water and the glue
in colour. [It is there though not separably distinguishable.] When the
eye is properly directed, he will find that it is no other thing than himself.
IV
face p. 360
Catching the Cow. After getting lost long in the wilderness, he has at
last found the cow and laid hand on her. But owing to the overwhelming
pressure of the objective world, the cow is found hard to keep under
control. She constantly longs for sweet grasses. The wild nature is still
unruly, and altogether refuses to be broken in. If he wishes to have her
completely in subjection, he ought to use the whip freely.
With the energy of his whole soul, he has at last taken hold of the
cow:
But how wild her will, ungovernable her power!
At times she struts up a plateau,
When lo! she is lost in a misty unpenetrable mountain-pass.
V
face p. 361
Herding the Cow. When a thought moves, another follows, and then
another—there is thus awakened an endless train of thoughts. Through
enlightenment all this turns into truth; but falsehood asserts itself when
confusion prevails. Things oppress us not because of an objective world,
but because of a self-deceiving mind. Do not get the nose-string loose,
hold it tight, and allow yourself no indulgence.
Never let yourself be separated from the whip and the tether,
Lest she should wander away into a world of defilement:
When she is properly tended, she will grow pure and docile,
Even without chain, nothing binding, she will by herself follow
you.
VI
face p. 362
Coming Home on the Cow’s Back. The struggle is over; gain and loss,
he is no more concerned with. He hums a rustic tune of the woodman, he
sings simple songs of the village-boy. Saddling himself on the cow’s
back, his eyes are fixed at things not of the earth, earthy. Even if he is
called to, he will not turn his head; however enticed he will no more be
kept back.
VII
face p. 363
The Cow Forgotten, Leaving the Man Alone. Things are one and the
cow is symbolic. When you know that what you need is not the snare or
set-net but the hare or fish, it is like gold separated from the dross, it is
like the moon rising out of the clouds. The one ray of light serene and
penetrating shines even before days of creation.
VIII
face p. 364
The Cow and the Man Both Gone out of Sight. All confusion is set
aside, and serenity alone prevails; even the idea of holiness does not
obtain. He does not linger about where the Buddha is, and as to where
there is no Buddha he speedily passes on. When there exists no form of
dualism, even a thousand-eyed one fails to detect a loophole. A holiness
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before which birds offer flowers is but a farce.
All is empty, the whip, the rope, the man, and the cow:
Who has ever surveyed the vastness of heaven?
Over the furnace burning ablaze, not a flake of snow can fall:
When this state of things obtains, manifest is the spirit of the
ancient master.
IX
face p. 365
Returning to the Origin, Back to the Source. From the very beginning,
pure and immaculate, he has never been affected by defilement. He
calmly watches the growth and decay of things with form, while himself
abiding in the immovable serenity of non-assertion. When he does not
identify himself with magic-like transformations, what has he to do with
artificialities of self-discipline? The water flows blue, the mountain
towers green. Sitting alone, he observes things undergoing changes.
X
face p. 366
PREFACE
1. 語錄.
2. 公案.
INTRODUCTION
1.1. 教外別傳. 不立文字. 直指人心. 見性成佛.
1.2. 臨濟義玄 (died, 867).
1.3. 上堂云. 赤肉團上. 有一無位眞人. 常從汝等面門出入. 未證據者.
看. 看. 時有僧出問. 如何是無位眞人. 師下禪牀把住云. 道. 道. 其僧
擬議. 師托開云. 無位眞人. 是什麽乾屎橛. 便歸方丈. (臨濟錄.)
1.4. 黄蘗希運 (died, 850).
1.5. 雲門文偃 (died, 949).
1.6. 睦州陳尊宿.
1.7. 秦時𨍏轢鑽.
1.8. 蘇東坡.
1.9. 廬山煙雨浙江潮. 不到千般恨未消. 到得歸來無別事. 廬山煙雨浙
江潮.
1.10. 青原惟信. 嗣法於黃龍晦堂心. 上堂曰. 老僧三十年前未參禪時.
見山是山. 見水是水. 及至後來親見知識. 有箇入處. 見山不是山. 見
水不是水. 而今得箇體歇處. 依前見山秪是山. 見水秪是水. 大衆這三
般見解. 是同是別. 有緇素得出. 許汝親見老僧. (續傳燈錄卷二十二.)
1.11. 問. 終日著衣喫飯. 如何免得著衣喫飯. 師云. 著衣喫飯. 進云. 不
會. 師云. 不會即著衣喫飯. (睦州錄.)
1.12. 百丈山涅槃和尙(百丈懷海法嗣). 一日謂衆曰. 汝等與我開田了.
我與汝說大義. 衆開田了. 歸請師說大義. 師乃展兩手. (傳燈錄卷九.)
1.13. 問. 如何是禪. 師云. 摩訶般若波羅蜜. 進云. 不會. 師云. 抖擻多
年穿破衲. 襤毿一半逐雲飛. (睦州錄.)
1.14. 問. 如何是禪. 師曰. 猛火著油煎. (睦州錄.)
1.15. 居士龐蘊問馬祖云. 不與萬法爲侶者. 是什麽人. 祖云. 待汝一口
吸盡西江水. 即向汝道. (傳燈錄卷八.)
1.16. 長沙景岑 (南泉普願嗣.) 因僧問. 南泉遷化向什麽處去. 師云. 石
頭作沙彌時. 參見六祖. 僧云. 不問石頭見六祖. 南泉遷化. 向什麽處
去. 師云. 教伊尋思去. (傳燈錄卷十.)
1.17. 拂子. 竹箆. 如意. 拄杖.
1.18. 長慶慧稜 (853–932) 拈拄杖示衆云. 識得這箇一生參學事畢. (葛
藤集.)
1.19. 芭蕉慧清 (仰山慧寂法孫). 上堂. 拈拄杖示衆曰. 儞有拄杖子. 我
與儞拄杖子. 儞無拄杖子. 我奪儞拄杖子. 靠拄杖下座. (五燈會元卷
九.)
1.20. 大潙慕喆云. 大潙即不然. 儞有拄杖子. 我奪却儞拄杖子. 儞無拄
杖子. 我與儞拄杖子. 大潙旣如是. 諸人還用得也未. 若人用得. 德山
先鋒. 臨濟後令. 若也用不得. 且還本主. (禪林類聚第十六.)
1.21. 睦州因僧問. 如何是超佛越祖之談. 師驀拈拄杖. 示衆云. 我喚作
拄杖. 儞喚作什麽. 僧無語. 師再將拄杖示衆云. 超佛越祖之談. 是儞
問麽. 僧無語. (睦州錄.)
1.22. 雲問一日拈起拄杖. 擧教云. 凡未實微謂之有. 二乘析謂之無. 緣
覺謂之幻有. 菩薩當軆即空. 乃云. 衲僧見拄杖. 但喚作拄杖. 行但行.
坐但坐. 總不得動著. (雲門錄.)
1.23. 雲門或拈拄杖示衆云. 拄杖子化爲龍. 呑却乾坤了也. 山河大地
甚處得來. (雲門錄.)
1.24. 雲門因擧生法師云. 敲空作響. 擊木無聲. 師以拄杖空中敲云. 阿
耶耶. 又敲板頭云. 作聲麽. 僧云作聲. 師云. 這俗漢. 又敲板頭云. 喚
什麽作聲. (雲門錄.)
1.25. 保福從展. 見一僧乃以杖子打露柱. 又打其僧頭. 僧作痛聲. 師
曰. 那箇爲什麽不痛. 僧無對. (傳燈錄卷十九.)
1.26. 楚圓慈明上堂云. 一塵纔擧. 大地全收. 一毛頭獅子. 百億毛頭
現. 百億毛頭現. 一毛頭現. 千頭萬頭. 但識取一頭. 乃豎起拄杖子云.
者箇是南源拄杖子. 那箇是一頭. 喝一喝. 卓拄杖一下. 下座. (慈明
錄.)
1.27. 碧巖集第十九則. 俱胝一指頭禪. 圜悟曰. 一塵擧大地收. 一花開
世界起. 只如塵未舉花未開時. 如何着眼. 所以道. 如斬一綟絲. 一斬
一切斬. 如染一綟絲. 一染一切染. 只如今便將葛藤截斷. 運出自己家
珍. 高低普應. 前後無差. 各自現成.