BOOK OF EQUANIMITY - Case 48

[AlanLa]

The farther along on this Path I go I find that the more I shut up the farther along on this Path I go.
Words are easy; shutting up is hard.
Allowing silence, accepting silence, being silent, just being,
All speak wordless volumes that can answer the BIG questions of love and life.
As a youngster I wanted to explain everything.
As an oldster I find that gets me into trouble.
To speak, even silently, is often to object, to push away.
To be silent is to accept, to draw in.
I could go on....
But I've said too much about duality already.

[Jishin]

- Any big questions in your life totally dissolve by silence? Do you know how to speak words filled with silence?

Please say something or just stay silent.

With no beginning and end, my and your words are absolutely silent as long as we don't give them life and death by hanging on to them...

Gassho, Jishin, _/st\_

[Ed]

Speak words filled with silence.
Before and beyond words,
There are no, and all questions.
No and all answers
Ends without a beginning meet.
It just does not make sense to ask, because there is no one asking someone a question.
But once "I" try to speak, it is like a flower growing everywhere in everything,
But you can't put it in a vase.
Beautiful, but weird.

Danny

Just moved some dots and comas around.
It is striking...but will delete if you say.
Thanks, Danny B.

[Byokan]

Ed, Danny,

Beautiful!

Gassho
Lisa
sat today

[Jundo]

Lovely.

[Anshu Bryson]

Just realized I can get an electronic copy of this book from the always-helpful Wisdom Publications. Duly downloaded and on my holiday reading list!

Gassho,

Bryson

sat today

[Jika]

Oh, an Ed-itor!

That way, it sounds much better, Ed.
Thank you!

Gassho,
Danny
#sattoday

[Ongen]

Wondeful

Gassho

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[michaeljc]

"Knowest thou the leisurely philosopher who has gone beyond learning and is not exerting himself in anything? He neither avoids idle thoughts nor seeks after truth, for he knows ignorance is no less than the Dharma-body.

Emptiness negatively defined denies the world of causality. All is then in utter confusion which surely invites evil all around. The same holds true when beings are clung to at the expense of emptiness."

- From Yoka Daishi's "Song of Enlightenment"

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