BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 18

[galen]

I am with you'all and Prof. Muller on this. Thus, ancient teachers including Yaoshan and Dogen and so many wrote of "non-thinking", which is not simply "thinking" nor simply "not thinking" ...



The heavy, low, solid, sometimes dark and storming clouds of thoughts and emotions that fill one's mind may not totally vanish (sometimes they do), but they are illuminated, become translucent, are transformed, open up airy, are experienced as substanceless even in their sometime rain and fog and thunder ... even as we go about our daily business. As MU!, another "no" that is "YES YES YES!"

But now that we have had this lovely discussion thinking about "MU" and "non-thinking" ... let's not get too caught up in intellectual traps of thinking about 'em!

Gassho, J

good one~~ on `em.

[galen]

No accusations, no over-thinking!
It's just that this is an important point and I felt I needed to clarify some things. Many people misunderstand buddhism as anti-intellectual, anti-thoughts, anti-emotions etc, when it doesn't have to be. I used to have all sorts of misconceptions regarding these things. Sorry if I put words in anyone's mouth!

Gassho,
Pontus

Its all good, man. We're one!


Gassho

[Shogen]

" Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
" Dog. "
Form is emptiness; Emptiness is form. Walk the walk or talk the talk.
gassho, Shogen