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.
A “Dharma Gate” is 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.
Koan:
We do not respond to others as if we were dispassionate reflecting mirrors. We respond as precarious, needy beings, struggling in the world to affirm some reassuring sense of self-identity. It is this that characteristically drives our feelings, perceptions and behaviours, and, largely unbeknown, distorts our mirror view of others.
In this connection the Buddha likened our discomfiture to being struck by two arrows when we felt we had been struck by only one. The first arrow is the objective ground for our enmity – the incident, the alleged injury or whatever. The second is how we experience the blow – what it feels like for us. To be aware of this distinction is a vital step in the development of the practice of emotional awareness.
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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?
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.
A “Dharma Gate” is 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.
Koan:
We do not respond to others as if we were dispassionate reflecting mirrors. We respond as precarious, needy beings, struggling in the world to affirm some reassuring sense of self-identity. It is this that characteristically drives our feelings, perceptions and behaviours, and, largely unbeknown, distorts our mirror view of others.
In this connection the Buddha likened our discomfiture to being struck by two arrows when we felt we had been struck by only one. The first arrow is the objective ground for our enmity – the incident, the alleged injury or whatever. The second is how we experience the blow – what it feels like for us. To be aware of this distinction is a vital step in the development of the practice of emotional awareness.
https://www.kenjoneszen.com/everyday-buddhism/everyday_buddhism_miscellaneous_papers/enmity]click here
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
A duck swims
Without getting wet
合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah
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