Its Friday! How is everyone doing? What is everyone reading?

Hey everyone! What's up.

How have we all been doing? Have you came to any interesting insights, any interesting passages you'd like to share?

I am doing well. I woke up earlier than intended and have been drinking tea and coffee on my back porch that I recently cleaned out and turned into a little chill zendo space (really just two cushions on a rug)

/u/lin_seed asked for some of my favorite cases in an AMA I posted and it had me revisiting Eno's Flag this morning and thinking about it while I'm just sitting here listening to the early morning sounds of birds and stuff.

Four deer even walked by (our back yard fence is also the fence the city uses for little park and these deer live somewhere out in there) so that was nice. They were foraging the ground for food.

To the case I mentioned!

CASE 29. ENO'S FLAG

The wind was flapping a temple flag, and two monks were arguing about the flag. One said, "The flag is moving." The other said, "the wind is moving." They could not agree, no matter how hard they debated. The sixth patriarch, Eno, happened to come by and said, "Not the wind, not the flag. It is the mind that is moving!" The two monks were struck with awe.

Mumon's Comments:

It is not the wind that moves, it is not the flag that moves, it is not the mind that moves. How shall we understand the sixth patriarch? If you gain an intimate grasp of its meaning, you will see how the two monks, intending to buy iron, got gold. The patriarch could not repress his compassion for the two monks, and so we have this disgraceful scene.

Mumons Verse

Wind, flag, and mind moves,

All confirmed as guilty of error.

Only we know our mouth is opened,

we do not know our speech went wrong.

Hopefully we all have a good weekend!

Submitted May 01, 2020 at 05:10PM by Aethrandir https://ift.tt/2YpDoP9