BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 42

[Ongen]

Question: Where is the best place to look for Vairocana?

Who's looking for who?

Question: If Vairocana is the dirty dishes, why bother to wash them?

Vairocana made the mess, and Vairocana has to clean it up.

Gassho
Daizan

Nothing to add to that

Gassho
Vincent

[Kantai]

"Question: Where is the best place to look for Vairocana?"

One does not know where to look until one finds what one's looking for.
And then we don't look for it anymore.

"but I still haven't found what I'm looking for".
U2 and Me2.. Us2

"Question: If Vairocana is the dirty dishes, why bother to wash them?"

We need something to eat on.

Gassho
Kantai

[Risho]

Thank you, Jundo. I'm like those who like their buddhas with painted eyes, or the old Gandhara style... but now there are kitchen sinks, and how can things be the same after this ?...[ATTACH=CONFIG]1799[/ATTACH]

Question: Where is the best place to look for Vairocana?

Who's looking for who?

Question: If Vairocana is the dirty dishes, why bother to wash them?

Vairocana made the mess, and Vairocana has to clean it up.

Gassho
Daizan

hahahah, Succinct, articulate, no-separation. Brilliant!

Gassho,

Risho

[Nengyo]

Question: Where is the best place to look for Vairocana?

You can't look away from Vairocana

Question: If Vairocana is the dirty dishes, why bother to wash them?

Because, while they are Vairocana, they are also covered in E. coli... one of the less pleasant realizations of Vairocana to ingest.

[Ongen]

BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 42

Why look for Vairocana? Just do the dishes.

Gassho

Vincent

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[Kaishin]

1: No need to look

2: Vairocana is always cleaning

[AlanLa]

Today was a difficult day for reasons I don't need to go into. To face it I decided this morning that I would treat as sacred every pang of unpleasantness, as (I find out now) Vairocana. Just be present with it all, not running away from it, but more like embracing life's "dirty dishes." Know what? It turned out to be a pretty fine day. To look for Vairocana in the good life seems like treating him with blinders on, besides it being too easy. That Buddha toilet seat Jundo posted looks too way clean to be Vairocana, though he is there in the clean and the dirty, which is exactly the point. I clean life's dirty dishes because that's what they require. Every crumb and smudge has come so very far to serve me, so it deserves to be treated it as sacred.

Said much more crudely: Shit happens and then we clean it up and move on. To ask why misses the whole point of the process.

[Meishin]

Where is the best place to look for Vairocana?

There's no looking.


If Vairocana is the dirty dishes, why bother to wash them?

There's no why.

Gassho
John

[jeff_u]

After putting my 4 month old to bed after some lengthy, banshee-esque screaming I was finally able to sit. I approached my cushion with whew-now-I-can-relax-and-find-Vairocana mind. Then, after some pleasant non-scream-filled sitting, screaming. Lots of it. After some moments of just sitting with it, I rose to go comfort the little guy. Turns out he had a diaper blow out. After some lengthy cleaning, walking, and calming he was back asleep and I was back on my cushion. Again I sat with the thought, "Now I can find this Vairocana."

The inquiring monk from the story and I were one in that moment. He with his water and wood, and me with my baby shit.

Where is the best place to look for Vairocana?Ear shattering screaming. Hands covered in baby poop.
If Vairocana is the dirty dishes, why bother to wash them? Vairocana poops. Vairocana cleans.

Gassho,
Jeff