I have done several AMAs recently and have also deleted quite a few posts and I wanted to come clean on this and offer some Zen reflection at the same time.
Q: why did you make an AMA when you did one recently?
The Fire God comes looking for fire.
to tell whether gold is real, see it through fire
Basically asking questions is difficult. You make a fool of yourself. Yet if it’s real gold, even that is empty.
Q: why did you delete your posts?
Ts’ao Ch’i was the abode of the great Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Ch’an, Hui Neng (also known as ‘workman Lu’), and is used to refer to him, as well as to his inspiration and lineage. According to tradition, when the Fifth Patriarch Hung Jen wanted to appoint a successor, he told his students to each compose a verse expressing his understanding. All deferred to the senior disciple, Shen Hsiu, a man of great learning and accomplishment in discipline and meditation. Shen Hsiu wrote,
The body is the tree of enlightenment,
The mind like a bright mirror-stand;
Time and again polish it diligently,
Do not let there be any dust
Hui Neng, however, then a workman in the temple, composed the following verse:
Enlightenment is basically not a tree,
And the mind-mirror not a stand;
Originally there is not a single thing
What is the use of wiping away dust?
I failed to see the emptiness of my tracks. I would like to sincerely apologize and beg this community to forgive me.
Submitted January 25, 2020 at 09:53PM by koalazen https://ift.tt/2NW69NG
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