Grass Hut - 18 - "Who Is the Original Master"

[Jundo]

Hello Buddha(s),

Now to Chapter 14, "Who Is the Original Master?"

Is this Buddha present? Are you present? Are you here? Is there something else you can be?

How best to find this Buddha?

Gassho, J

SatToday

[Myosha]

Is this Buddha present? Are you present? Are you here? Is there something else you can be?

Eternal.

"How best to find this Buddha?"

The mirror.


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[Jishin]

Who Is the Original Master? A monkey's ass.

Is this Buddha present? No.

Are you present? Hard to say.

Are you here? You who?

Is there something else you can be? Bee.

How best to find this Buddha? Under a rock.

Gasho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Rich]

The original master never leaves the building.

SAT today

[Jundo]

The original master never leaves the building.

SAT today

Elvis has left the building.

Gassho, J

SatToday

[Jika]

Hm, what's the definition of this building/hut at the moment?
If it's the Mirror, how can the dust of Elvis have left?
If it's a perishable hut, Elvis has perished with the hut and gone into Mastering, which was present before.
All music biz bizzing.
Sorry.

Gassho,
Danny
#sattoday

[Kaishin]

I think the only real answer to these questions lies in only-just-sitting. I don't think I'll ever fully grasp emptiness on a mental level. Just when I think I understand, a new analogy or explanation has me second guessing. But on the cushion all that falls away regardless.

-satToday

[Rich]

Elvis is 80 years old

Elvis has left the building.

Gassho, J

SatToday

and is in the building

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Sat today

[Jundo]

Some of our non-native English speakers may wonder what this "Elvis" thing is all about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_has_left_the_building

It is not some mysterious mystical code.

In fact, so many of the mysterious sayings in old Koans that seem so hard to understand are just the same: Old Chinese slang and puns that we no longer get. Maybe, 1000 years from now, Zen students will struggle with this mysterious Elvis Koan ...

Bodhidharma came to China, and Elvis left the building!

We're caught in a trap and can't get out!

Gassho, J

SatToday

[Myosha]

*slurring* "Thank-you-very-musch."


Gassho
Myosha sat today

[Jishin]

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Gassho, Jishin, #Sat2day

[Jeremy]

I think the only real answer to these questions lies in only-just-sitting. I don't think I'll ever fully grasp emptiness on a mental level. Just when I think I understand, a new analogy or explanation has me second guessing. But on the cushion all that falls away regardless.

-satToday

I agree. Sometimes it's like a game of join-the-dots where the dots you'd previously joined up become unjoined and dance a jig while you're not looking!

Just this morning I read this nice 'feature' of 'emptiness' in a footnote in Francis Cook's "Hua-yen Buddhism. The Jewel Net of Indra", p134 (this summarises one of the main themes of the book):

Buddhists use several terms to denote the same thing -- emptiness, Buddha, Buddha-nature, nonbeing, tathagatagarbha, and dharma-dhatu, to name a few..."

And sometimes 'the same thing' doesn't mean 'the same thing'. All good fun!

Gassho
Jeremy
SatToday (Phew!)

[Jika]

Some of our non-native English speakers may wonder what this "Elvis" thing is all about.

majestix.jpeg
("I'm feeling so tired... just tired..."")

Gassho,
Danny
#fellforit

[Byrne]

Everyday I wake up in a different place.

Gassho

Sat Today

[AlanLa]

Is this Buddha present? Yes, always

Are you present? Once in a while

Are you here? Everywhere I go, there I am (dammit)

Is there something else you can be? I will let Sammy answer for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbXQ-Dh1EyA