The dharma of no-dharma is the true dharma. -- Huang Po
Q.What the hell does "dharma" mean?
Dharma is a vague word that I find slips into conversations here and I've always balked at the facile use of the word when I have never found a convincing English translation.
I've heard dharma used as "law", but that has always confused me further and opens the pandora's box of nihilism. The only translation that has made sense to me is "object" or "thing", and if we use one of those words in place of dharma then Huang Po begins to make much more sense.
The thing of no-thing is the thing.
HMMMMMM, what use is this?
No use, but anyone knows the scientists long found out that atoms are mostly empty space....the key word being "mostly". Science deals in the tangible and are forever chasing their own asses looking for the remainder.
The zen master do not teach in partial fractions....no partial enlightenment. For the zen master it's ALL OR NOTHING. Or maybe better put: ALL IS NOTHING.
For the zen master the atom is not "mostly empty space", but ALL empty space. That said, this is all clever "Hyakujo fox talk" and while we can all discuss the emptiness of fire-- nobody is gonna stick their hand in a fire and pretend it's not there.
And this is where I'm stuck.
This is all just intellectual chitchat. I don't have any sense of enlightenment, but I know how to cross the street without getting run over.
MAYBE THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS?
When will I share eyebrows with Joshu? Maybe Joshu will show up someday and remove my pegs and stops.
Submitted December 22, 2017 at 09:33PM by john--jones http://ift.tt/2CXOvB1
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