Yet what is the world but an image of the true self?
You think the true self is interested by the show of the ego, a well held lotus position or a nice tan.
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Edited and removed question mark to show rhetorical nature of question
Bodhidharma, the startling awakening
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*"If you want to abandon the unreal and turn to the real, sit steadily and
gaze at a wall. Self and other, ordinary people and enlightened ones, are
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4 years ago
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If it's the lotus position or a nice tan, I'm in BIG trouble. :D
hehe, well.. None of the above. Of course a rhetorical question as you know :D
There is no way to impress the true self. Any efforts are to enhance separation.
Imagine the wisest of the wise with the answer to everything looking out and saying: "ok, I got it" No greater fool would exist.
Rhetorically well put Ta-Wan . . that's why I'm a wayward yogi; my lotus position used to be inverted but it is now of no importance :)
Damn I look good.
Damn it doesn't mean anything :p
So true...reminds me of Zen Master Bankei. In most zen temples if you fell asleep during zazen you were reprimanded...Bankei would do no such thing saying we are no less a Buddha whether we are awake or asleep.
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