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Right and Wrong

When Bankei held his seclusion-weeks of meditation, pupils from many parts of Japan came to attend. During one of these gatherings a pupil was caught stealing. The matter was reported to Bankei with the request that the culprit be expelled. Bankei ignored the case.

Later the pupil was caught in a similar act, and again Bankei disregarded the matter. This angered the other pupils, who drew up a petition asking for the dismissal of the thief, stating that otherwise they would leave in a body.

When Bankei had read the petition he called everyone before him. “You are wise brothers,” he told them. “You know what is right and what is not right. You may go somewhere else to study if you wish, but this poor brother does not even know right from wrong. Who will teach him if I do not? I am going to keep him here even if all the rest of you leave.”

A torrent of tears cleansed the face of the brother who had stolen. All desire to steal had vanished.

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Sutra

Without explanation:
Soul is, for there is no proof that it is not. (Sutra 1, Book 6) This
different from body, because heterogeneous. (Sutra 2, Book 6) Also
because it is expressed by means of the sixth. (Sutra 3, Book 6)

With Vijnanabhiksu’s explanatory bhasya filled in:
Soul is, for there is no proof that it is not, since we are aware of “I
think”, because there is no evidence to defeat this. Therefore all that
is to be done is to discriminate it from things in general. (Sutra 1,
Book 6) This soul is different from the body because of heterogeneous or
complete difference between the two. (Sutra 2, Book 6) Also because it,
the Soul, is expressed by means of the sixth case, for the learned
express it by the possessive case in such examples as ‘this is my body’,
‘this my understanding’; for the possessive case would be unaccountable
if there were absolute non-difference, between the body or the like,
and the Soul to which it is thus attributed as a possession. (Sutra 3,
Book 6)

–Kapila in Samkhya Sutra, Translated by James Robert Ballantyne

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