This is one of the most beautiful and inspiring passages in all of zen:
When we use the whole body and mind to look at forms, and when we use the whole body and mind to listen to sounds, even though we are sensing them directly, it is not like a mirror's reflection of an image, and not like the water and the moon. While we are experiencing one side, we are blind to the other side.
To learn the Buddha's truth is to learn ourselves. To learn ourselves is to forget ourselves. To forget ourselves is to be experienced by the myriad dharmas. To be experienced by the myriad dharmas is to let our own body and mind, and the body and mind of the external world, fall away. There is a state in which the traces of realization are forgotten; and it manifests the traces of forgotten realization for a long, long time.
In what way could understanding like this be assaulted? How could you even get someone like this to turn his head for you? How could a living manifestation of the practice of zazen like this, lead someone to believe zazen consists of prayer? Who ever read anything better in the books of Huang bo or Joshu?
Submitted September 13, 2017 at 06:04AM by XWolfHunter http://ift.tt/2f4blRf
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