Gate Thirty-five
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.
The non-arising of ill-will is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we protect ourselves and protect others...
A “Dharma Gate” is a teaching or practice we can study to gain insights into the deepening our practice. It's a way to integrate our understanding of approaching reality.
Koan:
"Ordinary people are dragged around by their karmic conditioning. Looking at the world from their standpoint of their conditioned feelings and get on each other's nerves. That is why there isn't anything else left to do besides right now, in the midst of this karmic conditioning, freeing ourselves from this karma. When we remove for a moment the spectacles of our conditioned feelings, we recognize what Shakyamuni Buddha said upon his awakening; "The great earth and all its living beings attain the way in this very moment. Mountains and rivers, grasses and trees are without exception buddha nature." That means that in Shakyamuni's eyes not a single one of us is in illusion. We, all suffering beings, are the ones who insist so stubbornly on our illusions. Shakyamuni's compassion and the Buddha's teaching consist in awakening us to this fact."
- To You, Zen Sayings of Kodo Sawaki, pg 181
Most noteworthy replies :
合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.
The non-arising of ill-will is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it] we protect ourselves and protect others...
A “Dharma Gate” is a teaching or practice we can study to gain insights into the deepening our practice. It's a way to integrate our understanding of approaching reality.
Koan:
"Ordinary people are dragged around by their karmic conditioning. Looking at the world from their standpoint of their conditioned feelings and get on each other's nerves. That is why there isn't anything else left to do besides right now, in the midst of this karmic conditioning, freeing ourselves from this karma. When we remove for a moment the spectacles of our conditioned feelings, we recognize what Shakyamuni Buddha said upon his awakening; "The great earth and all its living beings attain the way in this very moment. Mountains and rivers, grasses and trees are without exception buddha nature." That means that in Shakyamuni's eyes not a single one of us is in illusion. We, all suffering beings, are the ones who insist so stubbornly on our illusions. Shakyamuni's compassion and the Buddha's teaching consist in awakening us to this fact."
- To You, Zen Sayings of Kodo Sawaki, pg 181
Most noteworthy replies :
If I can find the Way
To subdue Godzilla within,
Then I protect against what malevolence brings
to Myself.
Fires of hatred
Find no fuel
In minds filled with love
To subdue Godzilla within,
Then I protect against what malevolence brings
to Myself.
Fires of hatred
Find no fuel
In minds filled with love
合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
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