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set an example for others

 

The Higher Power

looks not only at our actions but

into our hearts to gauge our worthiness.

Through genuine inner modesty, acceptance,

and innocence you correct your own

errors and set an example

for others.

 

fifth changing line

from The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 63, Chi Chi / After Completion

 

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the presence of things as they are

javier vallhonrat

 

Break open a single

particle and all the sutras grow clear:

the great merit-wheel of the dharma turns as a whole.

The womb of a donkey gives birth to the noble horse.

Each time you look, you’ll see it new.

 

For zazen, a quiet room is suitable.

Eat and drink moderately. Cast aside all involvements

and cease all affairs. Do not think good or bad. Do not administer

pros and cons. Cease all the movements of the conscious mind,

the gauging of all thoughts and views. Have no designs on

becoming a buddha. Zazen has nothing whatever

to do with sitting or lying down.

 

Think of not thinking.

How do you think of not-thinking? Without thinking.

This in itself is the essential art of zazen. The zazen I speak of is not

learning meditation. It is simply the dharma-gate of repose and

bliss, the cultivation-authentication of totally culminated

enlightenment. It is the presence of

things as they are.

 

Dogen

fukan zazengi

 

stand shoulder to shoulder and go on

stop your search

 

If you make slogans

based on words and sprout interpretations

based on objects, then you fall into the bag of antique curios,

and you will never be able to find this true realm

of absolute awareness beyond

sentiments.

 

At this stage you are free

to go forward in the wild field without choosing,

picking up whatever comes to hand: the meaning of the ancestral

teachers is clear in all that grows there. What’s more, the thickets of green

bamboo and the masses of yellow flowers and the fences and walls

and tiles and pebbles are inanimate things

teaching the dharma. 

 

The water birds and the

groves of trees expound the truths of suffering,

emptiness, and selflessness. Based on the one true reality,

they extend objectless compassion, and from the great

jewel light of nirvana they reveal uncontrived,

surpassingly wondrous powers.

 

Changqing said,

“When you meet a companion

on the Path, stand shoulder to shoulder and

go on: then your lifetime of learning

will be completed.”

 

Yuanwu

zen letters

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