He said:
I will set my clock to wake me in 100 years time. I will meditate so deeply that I will not take food, no water and barely one breath. As my body is so still I will age less than one day in all of this time.
The world around me and my clock will go for 100 years of motion and during this time I will do not one thing but meditate on this one question: "Who is meditating?" - When my clock calls me round I will announce my first words for 100 years and they shall be the answer to this one question.
After 100 years he said:
No one is meditating! In 100 years I have meditated and dedicated myself to this quest, I have delved I have persisted, and I have found, for sure, that no one is meditating. I must conclude with my fresh and un-aged mind that: If no one was meditating, then there was no meditation and that - this is one.
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
4 comments:
Truly wonderful, and very creative Ta-Wan! So good to read... :-)
I don't get this one :(.
Your'e probably using a mind you don't have to think out a question that was never set to understand something on behalf of a self that is not.
When you meditate, who is doing you?
Oh yes I get it! Beautiful. I love your blog btw, I've been following it since I discovered it. You always put things so eloquently.
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