When you set your body on the meditation bench, it is no more than silencing and emptying the mind and investigating with your whole being. Just make your mind and thoughts calrify and become still.
A fine place to do active meditation work is amid confusion and disturbances. When you do active meditation, you must penetrate through the heights and the depths without omitting anything. The whole essential being appears ready-made before you, and it no longer arises from anywhere else. It is just this one Great Potential, turning smoothly and steadily. Why talk any more about "Worldy phenomena" and "enlightened truth"? If you maintain a uniform equilibrium over months and years, naturally your stand will be true and solid.
You will experience realization, like water being poured into water, like gold being traded for gold. Everything will be equalized in One Suchness, profoundly clear, real, and pure. This is knowing how to live."
If you have great perceptions and capacities, you need not necessarily contemplate the sayings and stories of ancient Zen masters. Just correct your attention and quiet your mind from the time you arise in the morning, and whatever you say or do, review it carefully and see where it comes from and what makes all this happen.
Once you can pass through right in the midst of present worldly conditions, the same applies to all conditions—what need is there to remove them?
Then you can go beyond "Zen," transcend all parameters, and magically produce a sanctuary of purity, effortlessness, and coolness, right in the midst of the turmoil of the world.
The essential point in learning Zen is to make the roots deep and the stem firm. Twenty-four hours a day, be aware of where you are and what you do.
When no thoughts have arisen and nothing at all is on your mind, you merge with the boundless and become wholly empty and still. Then your actions are not interrupted by doubt and hesitation.
This is called the fundamental matter right at hand.
Yuanwu sure has a lot to say for a teacher of a school with nothing to say.
Do you do what Yuanwu says to do when you set your body on the meditation bench?
Active meditation? What could that really mean?
Like water being poured into water, how is that a realization?
No need to read the ancients? Why would Yuanwu say to just watch your self instead of zen cartoons?
"Twenty-four hours a day, be aware of where you are and what you do" sure thing Eckert Tolle.
Submitted July 07, 2017 at 10:49PM by ZenMovie http://ift.tt/2uT27K1
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