Once again, I invite all of you to read from Instant Zen: Waking up in the Present and share your thoughts and opinions. This time, the subject is the last chapter: "Sitting Meditation". I'm not going to copy and paste the whole thing here so I'd highly recommend reading through it yourselves.
Here I offer quotes from the chapter I found interesting and inspiring as well as my own lowly comments.
The light of mind is reflected in emptiness;
its substance is void of relative or absolute.
Golden waves all around,
Zen is constant, in action or stillness.
Whatever this Zen thing is, it seems to be unhindered by anything and void of the relative and absolute. We disparage the One Mind if we call it absolute and we disparage it if we call it relative. What a dilemma!
Thoughts arise, thoughts disappear;
don't try to shut them off.
Let them flow spontaneously --
what has ever arisen and vanished?
Attempting to calm thoughts down is quietism, the opposite is no good either. Let them be, no aversion nor grasping, and we shall enter into the One Mind. Notice that thoughts aren't the only things that are spontaneous, everything is this way.
Watching myself throughout the days I realize that I don't know why I take any action at all. Why did I move my left hand to grab my tea at this very moment? Why did I just pause in this sentence? What am I going to write right now? I don't know! Everything simply seems to happen on its own.
Put your own mind to use to look back once:
once you've returned, no need to do it again;
you wear a halo of light on your head.
How compassionate! He promises Instant Enlightenment if we only look back once. Let's all turn the light around.
If it happens you do not know,
then sit up straight and think;
one day you'll bump into it.
This I humbly hope.
I hope so as well Foyan...
Submitted May 03, 2019 at 07:31AM by Nimtrix1849 http://bit.ly/2UY6ShU
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