The last kalpa will
be when everything will go, including human life. Juko is the name for the
kalpas when everything existed pretty firmly, without losing its form, and eko
[samvarta kalpa] means the time at the end of juko when everything will
disintegrate. Integrated age and disintegrated age. An integrated age is twenty
kalpas long, and one kalpa is our lifespan going up and down, from ten to
eighty thousand years. [That means beings evolving from lifespans of ten to eighty thousand years and back so it's just an inconceivable number.
Student 1: Will there still be Buddha after the disintegration?
S.R.: There is a koan which is exactly the same as your question.
Student 1: What is the answer to the koan?
S.R.: That is also a koan, so this is your homework. Interesting question. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-D as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC
Student 1: Will there still be Buddha after the disintegration?
S.R.: There is a koan which is exactly the same as your question.
Student 1: What is the answer to the koan?
S.R.: That is also a koan, so this is your homework. Interesting question. -------------------------------- Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-02-00-D as found on shunryusuzuki.com. Edited by DC