I carve a disc from stone, later I decide to carve out the middle so I now have a ring shape.
Have I added to it or removed from it? I have added form, added space, added surface, removed stone, removed form.
The hole is made of stone and is made of space. The hole contains no stone and the stone ring contains space.
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:
There was never a stone to carve...just don't throw it at me!
Ha, ha . . David is correct, but so is Ta Wan . . .
:-)
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