Koan Of The Week

Paladinben finds some Foyan

People spend all their time on thoughts that are nothing but idle imagination and materialistic toil, so wisdom cannot emerge. All conventions come from conceptual thought; what use do you want to make of them? Wisdom is like the sun rising, whereupon everything is illu­minated. This is called the manifestation of nondiscriminatory knowledge. You should attain this once, and from then on there will be something to work with, and we will have something to talk about.

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^{foyan, Instant Zen, Cleary, page.26}

u/paladinben's comment:

Go to sleep, wake up with the sun. Stay awake, stare at the moon.

Submitted February 08, 2019 at 08:48PM by TFnarcon9 http://bit.ly/2Sh3WjO