Gate Forty-seven
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 mind without enmity and intimacy is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it], when among enemies and intimates, we are impartial.
By “Dharma Gate”, We mean a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.
Most note worthy replies :
It's easy to remain impartial to the world if we practice alone on a mountain somewhere, but can we maintain equanimity while surrounded by the pleasures and pain of the "regular" world?
合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah
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 mind without enmity and intimacy is a gate of Dharma illumination; for [with it], when among enemies and intimates, we are impartial.
By “Dharma Gate”, We mean a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.
Most note worthy replies :
Without enmity, I do not yearn for liberation from aggravation.
Without intimacy, I do not cry for what my heart holds dear.
But I am alive and so I find my stillness among my desires.
It's easy to remain impartial to the world if we practice alone on a mountain somewhere, but can we maintain equanimity while surrounded by the pleasures and pain of the "regular" world?
Water everywhere
A duck swims
Without getting wet
合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah
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