Meeting the self

[michaeljc]

Re: Meeting the self

A few years ago, I was having a conversation with my boyfriend when suddenly it felt as if an invisible curtain between me and my life had dropped. Then the feeling passed.

:wink:

[Seiryu]

Re: Meeting the self

The Bodhi body originally is has the no bodhi tree tree,
The mirror mind (-like is mind) like has a no clear stand mirror.
At Buddha-nature all emptiness times oneness we is must always strive clean to and polish pure it
And where must is not there let room the for dust dust collect to alight .?


Clearer now?

[Kyonin]

Re: Meeting the self

Being, just allowing ourselves to stay still with our body and mind as one, is one of the greatest gifts ever.

Always there, but seldom understood.

We want this and that. We fight and strive to change and upgrade, to climb proverbial ladders... and at the end it all seems so simple and silly when we taste emptiness.

Enlightened thread indeed.

Thank you all.

[Kaishin]

Re: Meeting the self

what would you write that would bring it all home?


P.S
Couldn't resist :twisted:

The Bodhi body originally is has the no bodhi tree tree,
The mirror mind (-like is mind) like has a no clear stand mirror.
At Buddha-nature all emptiness times oneness we is must always strive clean to and polish pure it
And where must is not there let room the for dust dust collect to alight .?


Clearer now?

My head just exploded. Or maybe it was the head that I usually put on top of mine. Is this my head???

[michaeljc]

Re: Meeting the self

what would you write that would bring it all home?


P.S
Couldn't resist :twisted:

The Bodhi body originally is has the no bodhi tree tree,
The mirror mind (-like is mind) like has a no clear stand mirror.
At Buddha-nature all emptiness times oneness we is must always strive clean to and polish pure it
And where must is not there let room the for dust dust collect to alight .?


Clearer now?

My head just exploded. Or maybe it was the head that I usually put on top of mine. Is this my head???

By coincidence I have just read a nice expression in a letter from a friend from China:

It is easy to find a sparrow but hard to see an eagle

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[Taigu]

Re: Meeting the self

Or rather...it is easy to look for an eagle but so hard to really see a sparrow...

Gassho

Taigu

[michaeljc]

Re: Meeting the self

Or rather...it is easy to look for an eagle but so hard to really see a sparrow...

Gassho

Taigu

[Omoi Otoshi]

Re: Meeting the self

I went all the way to Norway looking for an eagle... Eventually I found it:



On the way home, I was just going to test a friend's lens and directed it at the first living thing I found. And for the first time saw the beauty of the anonymous little swallow:



Gassho Rev Taigu,
Pontus

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[Jinyo]

Re: Meeting the self

that's an arresting image of an eagle -

Oh for the physical strength of the eagle and the humility of the swallow within my mind.

Gassho

Willow

[andyZ]

Re: Meeting the self

Thank you Seiryu for sharing your thoughts.
Since we're posting the sayings of the ancients, I feel this one is appropriate

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualised by the myriad things.
Dogen

[Sleeps]

Re: Meeting the self

Hi Seiryu,

I doubt I'm touching upon anything new and exciting here but I feel it's worth mentioning in relation to what you said. It is important to accept yourself, it's also important to notice if there is a arrow stuck in your leg and pull it out, or in my case recently, recognizing that I had a horrible diet that was pretty much messing with my ability to even think clearly. As I see it the I is a collaboration of habbits. Some beneficial, those formed out of sincere desire to really really do "good", as closely and thoroughly out of love as possible and not abandoning judgement..and those reactionary ones. The latter ones seem to be the ones that need to actively be recognized, a certain degree of calmness needs to be fostered to commit a action that goes against one created in a reactionary "map solidifying" way, the "beneficial" ones aswell, killing people with love is as misguided as killing them with hate...

Cheers,
Greg