…giving a hand out as it were giving bounty, and it shows a picture of the fat buddha, putai, or in Japanese known as Hotei, who has an enormous belly, big, ears, who carries around a colossal bag. And what do you think this bag has in it? Trash,…

…for Christ's Sake or people who are very much like those Taoist and Buddhist Hermits of china typified by the little fat tramp Hotei, sometimes called the laughing buddha, who you know is the one who carries a big bag of rubbish around with him to give…

…bit to get the point over a little bit more than ordinary, that is to say tramps, bums, clowns. You know this fellow this is Hotei or Hotei in Chinese, and he is a fat slob, but he goes around with an enormous bag patched and so on and he collects…

…get the point over a little bit more than ordinary, that is to say tramps, bums, clowns. You know this fellow this is Hotei or Hotei in Chinese, and he is a fat slob, but he goes around with an enormous bag patched and so on and he collects trash.…

…and so on and he collects trash. He collects everything that nobody wants. See ordinary people are always out for precious things, but Hotei is out for rubbish and he collects all this rubbish and he gives it away to children who love it. You see, well…

…himself up to death. And so here is his spirit in a painting by sengai, a Great Zen master of the 17th century which shows Hotei you know you often see him as the so called fat buddha you can buy figures of him in any Chinese Artwork store. Hotei he…

…shows Hotei you know you often see him as the so called fat buddha you can buy figures of him in any Chinese Artwork store. Hotei he is a kind of a tramp. And here he's waking up from his sleep and the poem written above him on the painting says:…

…this is why in Zen art, the sages are always drawn to look a little bit like bums. You know that putai, or Hotei as he's called what's called the laughing buddha the fat buddha with an immense bag of rubbish into which he indiscriminately puts anything…

…drawings they did of themselves and even of buddha, they are all oafs and clowns and baboons. You know that marvelous character, Hotei, who is the fat buddha he's not exactly, he shouldn't be called the fat buddha, he's really a Zen Tramp, this terrific…

…carries around a big bag and that bag is full of trash. It's all odds and ends which nobody else thought were important. But Hotei is like a child and he has no prejudice about things and anything might be important. And so he picks up old rags,…

…become as a child means that you do things which adults consider unimportant. There is a wonderful Buddhist Character his name is Hotei in Japanese, Putai in Chinese and he carries around a bag, enormous bag in which he collects rubbish, every kind of…

…in Zen art are often represented as bums. There's the beautiful one over there by the furnace, painted by sengai, of the bum, Hotei or putai in Chinese Who's always immensely fat and he's saying: buddha is dead. Maitreya, who is supposed to be the next…

…hands giving a handout, as it were, giving bounty, and it shows the picture of the fat buddha, putai, or in Japanese known as Hotei, who has an enormous belly big ears, who carries around a colossal bag. And what do you think this bag has in it?…