On seeing one thing, you see all.

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Huang po said.

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"On seeing one thing, you see all. On perceiving any individuals mind, you are perceiving all mind. Obtain a glimpse of one way and all ways are embraced in your vision, for there is nowhere at all that is devoid of the way. When your glance falls upon a grain of dust, what you see is identical with all the vast world systems with their great rivers and mighty hills. To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the the nature of all the waters of the universe. Moreover, in thus contemplating the totality of phenomena, you are contemplating the totality of mind. All these phenomena are intrinsically void, and yet this mind with which they are identical is no mere nothingness. By this i mean that it does exist, but in a way too marvelous for us to comprehend. It is an existence which is no existence, a non existence which is nevertheless an existence. So this true void does in some marvelous way "exist" "

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T. O. M's comment.

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To me, Zen is just a shift in focus.. A shift from focusing on what sepates us as individuals, to one of focusing on what makes us all the same, and Huang po emphasises this sameness here..

I often look at my dog, and I can see the obvious similarities that the dog has to me, it has sense organs that are fundamentally the same as mine, it's eyes are remarkably similar, it's sense of smell is more highly attuned but fundamentally the same, ears, tongue and skin all sense the surroundings in the same fundamental way as I do.

It breathes the same air as I do, eats and defecates in a similar way to me.

When I actually sit back and look at the dog next to me, an animal that most people just take for granted, I can see that we have both been formed with great similarities, even though we are a different species of animal..

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It really is a marvelous and totally unfathomable world in which we live..

Submitted May 24, 2022 at 12:31PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/Sn0tLjR