Saturday, 4 May 2019

Musing on a Zen koan.

Coming into the atmosphere of Zen is like sleepwalking into a pyre.

Dreaming -- this one's delusion, this one's enlightenment, this one's attainment, this one's a student, this one's a master.

Fire covers you whole. How did you make it here? What moved your feet? Do you know it's happening?

Consumed -- it couldn't burn what you are, but it devoured what you were not. Were you ever asleep? Were you ever awake? Raise a flower, see who can say.

The fire god came seeking fire.



Submitted May 05, 2019 at 11:16AM by NorthStarIV http://bit.ly/2vFvHVw

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