three-year-old and eighty-year-old
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Summary
Although a child of three can speak the truth, an old man of eighty cannot practise it. Mike uses the koan for the gap between thinking and acting: saying what is right is easy, doing it needs continuous effort.
Part of ↑ thinking and acting ↑ koan ↑ abstract and real right and wrong
Main theme
Yes, although a child can say it, an old man can’t do it.
1Shoaku Makusa 5: The Child and the Old Man Winter 2006 — Shoaku Makusa
Developed
But even an old man of eighty like me cannot do what the child says.
2Right and Wrong in Action June 2006 — Padmafarma
A child of three can speak the truth. But an old man of eighty cannot practise it.
3Right Action from Balance August 2014 — Banský Studenec
Mention
Even a child of three can understand it, but even an old man of eighty, like me, cannot do it
4Precepts as Guidelines July 2009 — Dibbavana
Although a child of three can speak the truth, even myself as an old man of eighty has to make continuous efforts to practice it!!
Even though a child of three can speak this truth, an old man of eighty cannot practice it.