In Sung-Dynasty China, the term "householder" refers to gentlemen who had not left their families. Some of them live in houses with their wives, while others are single and chaste, but anyway we can say that they are all immensely busy with dusty toil. Nevertheless, if one of them has clarified the Way, patch-robed monks gather to do prostrations and to ask for the benefit of their teaching, as they would a Master who had left home.
We should be like that, even towards women, even towards an animal. - Zen Master Eihei Dogen, 1240 AD
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