Why would you be afraid? These are all events within your own house. -- Foyan
Someone here said you can't be a zen master if you can't be fooled. I wondered about that. What would being fooled have to do with zen mastery, with being a buddha or awakened one?
My first thought was what would one be like that was born and never fooled? A Golden Child? Some would say that all children are "golden" and are warped and woofed by the world. That somehow we have the awakened eyes and yet a shroud of negative illusion is pulled over our initial illusion? What did our initial illusion encompass if it did not include bad and good? I guess it would still be complete, but we would not be "taken in" by our experiences?
I say "taken in" because seeing all experience as our own "house" means there is nowhere any of us can be taken. It's all our house. Rooms in our house perhaps, but still rooms.
This is why I scoff at the "multi-verse". It's all just rooms in our house. We don't go into another room of our house and call it the "multi-house".
So.
It's all our house and ourselves? What is this perspective we all share as we all look in on our house? The old men called it the "mysterious observatory". Sounds even further alienated than someone caught in a limited view, but also free in a profound way too.
I don't know how to put into words just what I mean. I don't know just what I mean either.
But for now I am looking at this experience we colloquially call "life" or "the world" as all my own house that is really all our own house that we each look into separately and together.
I'd say "Welcome home!", but I can't say that I ever left. That any of use ever depart or arrive. I wonder how we can communicate with the blind spot of our lost loved ones and maybe even with those yet to be born. Time seems less like law and more like a convenience so that this house we all share can be navigated at all.
Who am I?
Submitted December 27, 2017 at 07:44PM by john--jones http://ift.tt/2pILDq2
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