You'd trust water to evaporate.
So sit until thoughts subside.
Adding water does not aid evaporation.
So no need to help the mind.
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
one an...
4 years ago
3 comments:
You've described zazen practice to a 'tea'.
Hands palm to palm...
I myself had used the metaphor of a naughty child to describe the property of mind.
The usage of evaporating water is brilliant!
Wonderful :-)
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