The Gateless Barrier #8: Zen Masters reject cartwheels

https://terebess.hu/zen/Wumenguan.pdf

1. If a barrier were created, and if no way to cross it or destroy it was available, then it would be a gateless (impassable) barrier.

2. It is possible to create such a barrier by destroying the equipment (or knowledge) that could be used to breach it.

Remove the wheels of the first wheeled cart. What is obvious? First of all, knowing what happened to the wheel, it is clear that nobody is going to live in a world without wheeled carts. Why? Because the whole world is open to the first person to use a wheeled cart. There is no going back. The path from our world back to the world before the wheeled cart is not passable. You could even say that a gateless barrier separates our world from the world before the wheel.

You can’t go back. The first wheeled cart user is awash in desire. It’s hopeless. Your eyes can see what no one else has ever seen before: the whole world!

What is obvious when the first wheeled cart is disassembled? The experience of knowing that a wheeled cart exists is greater than the physical act of disassembly. Can you feel it? Try moving your mind against the progression of technology. Try it! How do I know you’re going to give up sooner or later?

Submitted February 12, 2020 at 05:19AM by MrGod4U https://ift.tt/2tUEXrO