BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 30

[AlanLa]

Very nice.

[Myoshin]

Hello just a little question: does this study will go on or do we have a break? I'm wondering because it's been posted 2 month ago .
Not bad thoughts about that just curious

Gassho

Myoshin

[Jundo]

Hello just a little question: does this study will go on or do we have a break? I'm wondering because it's been posted 2 month ago .
Not bad thoughts about that just curious

Gassho

Myoshin

Myoshin,

In Zen, silence often teaches more than words. Please see Koan 1 ... Where the Buddha ascends the Platform, says nothing, heads back to his bed.

http://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?9674-BOOK-OF-EQUANIMITY-Case-1

However, I have just been letting it be quiet for awhile. I was planning to move on this week or next.

Gassho, Jundo

[Myoshin]

Thank you Jundo, good teaching the first koan sorry for that

Gassho

Myoshin

[Neika]

Is God the same as Buddha? As three pounds of flax? As Mount Sumeru? In ancient China? In your living room? In a Catholic Church or a Buddhist Temple? At the start of the universe or at the finish? Big or small? Permanent or Impermanent? One or Many? Black or Red? Yes? No? Beyond and through-and-through all Yes-No?

I've spent my entire life pursuing these questions. Studying religion, spirituality, and philosophy has consumed me for the past three decades. Is there a god? What religion is the right one? Is science compatible with religion? What did I end up with? Three decades of anxiety and discontent. It wasn't until I realized that the answer was found in not having a question that I have recently begun to feel a far more 'profound' sense of contentment. God is not-god, buddha is not-buddha, god is buddha, or not. Really, who cares. I stopped trying so hard, my brain hurts less. The profound questions seem less important and the simple questions become the truly profound. I have found in just sitting, that the dualities seem to fade away, even the all-is-one, one-is-all, doesn't seem right. It isn't as if all dual things suddenly cease to exist, or that black suddenly is the same color as white, rather that the contrast is suddenly unimportant and accepting things as they are eliminates the differences.