Following satori, Zen traditionally demands a period of post enlightenment training knows as “long cultivation of the sacred embryo” (shōtai chōyō 聖胎長養). The classic literature is filled with stories of masters who, after their awakening, retreated to the mountains and spent twenty, thirty, or (like Nanyang) forty years cultivating their understanding. It is a time of integrating spiritual realization into every day life and removing the “smell” of enlightenment, so that one can live the truth of the teaching that “ordinary mind is the way.” — Dialogues in a Dream, The Life and Zen Teaching of Muso Soseki by Thomas Yūhō Kirchner
Submitted November 01, 2018 at 03:22AM by Dhammakayaram https://ift.tt/2RqmtVU
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