Nothing is often brought up in zen studies, and the lack of need for understanding.
It isn’t that there’s nothing to achieve, but to achieve nothing is the only way.
Studying the way, your resolve must be greater than any stopping point. Your efforts must be thorough to realize the one truth, and walk at ease in the one reality.
Birth and death, void has no beginning or end. Ones eyes must be hollowed out and blind, then what you see will be worth something.
There is no zen, there are no masters, and there are no students of the way. It is just that ordinary mind cannot be grasped without the effort to disrupt the ordinary workings of your mind.
Once you have reached this point, you can truly be unconcerned and see with the same eyes as the Buddhas and patriarchs of the past. But to be free of worry and doubt, of gain or loss, of judgement and comparison, of self, how many are capable of this?
The gateless gate, the pathless path, who is it that can enter? Look to this passage from the preface of the mumonkan,
“Are you not aware of the insight that purports,"Those who have entered the gate are no family treasures. What is gained as a result of cause and effect has beginning and end, and thus will become nothing." Such remarks are like raising up waves in the windless ocean, or gouging a wound into healthy skin. Those who cling onto words are fools who believe that they can catch the moon with a stick or can scratch their itchy foot through a leather shoe. How can they "see" reality as it actually is?”
A bright moon shining in the night sky, you must find a place to enter for yourself, don’t look to others for a way in.
Submitted September 28, 2019 at 07:58PM by ArgesAwoken https://ift.tt/2mDvmSj
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