The Old Man with a Broken Arm

Blue Collar Zen di spiritual folk-tales & conversations, at the Detroit Zen Center

Note sull'episodio

War: The curse of humanity. An old man with a wrangled & broken arm shares his story from youth, of being the lone surviving man in the entire region, of a long & bloody war in 8th century China that killed 10 million men over the course of decades.

A story in the book of prose & poems by Po Ch'u I, a famous poet & Taoist of 8th century China. Translated by David Hinton.