…commentary. Anyway, the story is the baso Zen master baso, the grandson of the sixth patriarch baso doitsu, the sixth patriarch Eno and his disciple. One of the two main disciples is nangaku and nangaku's disciple is baso. So the other important disciple…

…announced that he will give transmission to someone and everyone thought that of course jinshu will receive the transmission. But actually Eno, the 6th patriarch, Eno Fu became the 6th patriarch. Eno Fu was pounding rice in the corner of the temple and…

…give transmission to someone and everyone thought that of course jinshu will receive the transmission. But actually Eno, the 6th patriarch, Eno Fu became the 6th patriarch. Eno Fu was pounding rice in the corner of the temple and received the transmission.…

…thought that of course jinshu will receive the transmission. But actually Eno, the 6th patriarch, Eno Fu became the 6th patriarch. Eno Fu was pounding rice in the corner of the temple and received the transmission. But jinshu was a great scholar. So…

…his school was called nanzen or South Zen. But later, as you know, after jinshu his school became weaker and weaker. But Eno the 6th patriarch's school became stronger and stronger after the 6th patriarch. But at sekito's time, sekito is the 8th patriarch,…

…Eno the 6th patriarch's school became stronger and stronger after the 6th patriarch. But at sekito's time, sekito is the 8th patriarch, Eno is the 6th patriarch and the 7th patriarch is Seigen and Seigen's Disciple is sekito. Sekito is the author of this…

…or his disciple denounced the Northern Zen a lot. So at sekito's time there was some conflict between Southern Zen, which is Eno, the 6th patriarch's Zen, and jinshu's Zen. So sekito kisen, the author of this poem, wanted to make this dispute clear from…