BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 40

[Matt]

What do you answer?

I keep thinking how to answer but find I am late every time.

Practice now is more about how I live each day, rather than trying to figure out what life is. It's good to just walk on the ordinary ground, making mistakes, learning, sitting, waking to a fresh face.

Thank you for this, Daizan.

Gassho,
Matt J

[Byokan]

Hi All,

Juki posted this in another thread about a year ago, it caught my eye and seemed to apply to our discussion:

The German poet Rilke was not a Buddhist (although he did write a poem titled "Buddha"). But he expresed this very sentiment in his "Letters to a Young Poet." I read this passage years ago, and come back to it quite often:


"have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

Beautiful!

Gassho
Lisa

[AlanLa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmOZFAYeurY