Rivers and weather can be explained in words and so can spiritual ideas.
The more words used the less the description resembles the truth of just sitting, by the river, in the moon light.
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
2 comments:
Beautiful.
We can both describe the experience of sitting by the river in the moonlight very differently--even maybe contradictive.
Poor them who debated over which description is correct when all they need is to sit, by the river, in the moonlight, and have a sip of the experience themselves.
Looove this one :)
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