This semester final exam question for my personality class. They have to try to explain one of the story in an essay format:
The Short Staff
Shuzan held out his short staff and said, "If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?"
A Philosopher Asks Buddha
A philosopher asked Buddha: "Without words, without silence, will you tell me the truth?" The Buddha sat quietly. The philosopher then bowed and thanked the Buddha, saying, "With your loving kindness I have cleared away my delusions and entered the true path." After the philosopher had gone, Ananda asked Buddha what the philosopher had attained. The Buddha commented, "A good horse runs even at the shadow of the whip."
The Turtle in the Garden
A monk saw a turtle in the garden of Daizui's monastery and asked the teacher, "All beings cover their bones with flesh and skin. Why does this being cover its flesh and skin with bones?" Master Daizui took off one of his sandals and covered the turtle with it.
2 comments:
Is this part of the actual exam or the bonus? How does one answer these questions? Are Ss expected to incorportate things they've learned in class? How do YOU grade them? What would be your criteria? I'm very curious!
It's an extra credit question. I don't want my students to shoot me with a gun.
they should answer it with some mature answers, incorporating what they have learned, especially when I taught them several classes of Buddhism as well.
one student answer the first question in one sentence: "it's called a stick."
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