9/10 TRANSMISSION of the LIGHT: to Ashvaghosa

[Jikyo]

Re: 9/10 TRANSMISSION of the LIGHT: to Ashvaghosa

Nothing really struck me with these two readings....I guess the main points just didn't gel. Until...in the last paragraph of Hixon:

A certain common red clay pigment is used by traditional artisans as an artifice, a knowing, where as the uncommon red of the peach blossoms is an effortless red. It does not know the artifice of red. It is true not-knowing. Consider the tender expression in the eyes and the subtle smile on the lips of Ling-yun when he simply becomes these red blossoms, far beyond any concept or experience of red, untouched by any tradition of red, and method of producing red, and expectations of achieving red.

Ok now that hits the spot.

Gassho,
Jisen/BrianW

I had the same feeling about this, Jisen/Brian. I found it to be quite beautiful. It truly did "hit the spot."

Gassho, Jikyo

[Fuken]

Re: 9/10 TRANSMISSION of the LIGHT: to Ashvaghosa

"You are cut through by me."
At the time of reading, 6 feet above my head there was a helicopter spinning
its blades on the flight deck.

I spent an abnormal amount of time reading over this case.
How interssting.