July 2012
“It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.”
—Danish proverb (via brotherofosiris)
“Silence is so accurate.”
—Mark Rothko (via sacren)
“No bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.”
—Yoshida Kenko
(via meditationsof)
(via meditationsof)
Now I have no words
For what I need to express,
So pay attention;
I’ll give you a nod, a laugh,
Or just a punch in the jaw.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
—Albert Einstein (via completedream)
Hey everyone, new URL!
From Zenmystic to Shougetsu :)
“So the unwanting soul
sees what’s hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.” —Lao Tzu (via journalofanobody)
sees what’s hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.” —Lao Tzu (via journalofanobody)
Nagarjuna says in the MMK that “believers in emptiness are incurable.” That said, there is a fundamental problem in expressing your understanding without becoming enamored by your own cleverness.
You’re right. There’s no need to try and be clever or sharp with others. There’s no need to pretend like one knows something!
“Do not try to become anything.
Do not make yourself into anything.
Do not be a meditator.
Do not become enlightened.
When you sit, let it be.
What you walk, let it be.
Grasp at nothing.
Resist nothing.” —Ajhan Chah (via balladofsirfrankiecrisp)
Do not make yourself into anything.
Do not be a meditator.
Do not become enlightened.
When you sit, let it be.
What you walk, let it be.
Grasp at nothing.
Resist nothing.” —Ajhan Chah (via balladofsirfrankiecrisp)
“With every step, you touch the ground of reality”
—Tran Thai Tong, meditation master of thirteenth-century Vietnam. (via alltheloversanddreamers)
But what is it when I stop saying anything?
Hahahah! Wonderful :)
Is it even a dangling carrot, or just a picture of a carrot?
It’s whatever you say it is, and nothing more.
It depends on who you ask: Dogen would say that enlightenment is practice and practice is enlightenment, hence there is no beginning to enlightenment and no end to practice. As for the shore? I don't know, I'm not enlightened: but I do know the vehicles are supposed to point us towards enlightenment, whatever that is. What you're looking at is people confusing understanding the method for the actual product which then produces attachment. That's the fault of the people, not the concepts.
I know what Dogen said. I’m asking you though. That’s the problem. We read and conceptualize but we don’t actually know. We just recognize what we’ve been told, but never can be sure if it’s genuine or if it’s just conjured imitation. Enlightenment described will never be anything more than a dangling carrot to me. I reject it. I’ll grow my own. I’m not telling anyone to do the same…
Are you Buddhist?
No, I’m Evan.
“I’ve never bothered about getting ahead
But just gone leisurely along
letting things take their way
In my bag are three measures of rice
A bundle of firewood sits by the hearth
Who cares about delusion and enlightenment?
What use is there in fame and fortune?
In my hut I listen to the evening rain
And stretch my legs without a care in the world” —Ryōkan (via birdandvine)
But just gone leisurely along
letting things take their way
In my bag are three measures of rice
A bundle of firewood sits by the hearth
Who cares about delusion and enlightenment?
What use is there in fame and fortune?
In my hut I listen to the evening rain
And stretch my legs without a care in the world” —Ryōkan (via birdandvine)
Mahayana, hinayana, and vajrayana, the three Indian schools from which other Buddhist traditions sprang, have the suffix "yana" in them to denote their status as "vehicles." That is, in the words of the Buddha, they're like a boat to carry us across a river: once on the other side, we don't need it. However, we do need the boat to cross a river we can't swim. It seems like you're trying to tell people to abandon the boat before reaching the shore.
What shore? I use my tissue to blow my nose and then I throw it away. I wash my plate when I’m done eating. Do you even know what enlightenment is? I don’t mean that in a berating way, believe me.
I think they mean to say that you are probably upset with the attachment to objectivism that everyone has. Everyone is too preoccupied with objects and words and ideas to actually DO something and get a move on with their so called “enlightenment”.
Including myself, often. My life is ridden with discursiveness and symbols.
“Like a drifting cloud,
Bound by nothing:
I just let go
Giving myself up
To the whim of the wind” —Ryokan, Great Fool: Zen Master Ryokan: Poems, Letters, and Other Writings (via meditationsof)
Bound by nothing:
I just let go
Giving myself up
To the whim of the wind” —Ryokan, Great Fool: Zen Master Ryokan: Poems, Letters, and Other Writings (via meditationsof)
“Kill the Buddha.” -A Zen Koan. This means you are developing to a realization of Emptiness-as-such or your true nature, which is beyond all representative words. I commend you!
I still cannot stand this kind of talking…
It's not about the Buddha, it's about his teachings. A statue of him is not worshipped. It is merely a reminder of the teachings. So I agree with you. But don't get so angry. It's not others you should worry about, it's yourself. Don't get so worked up! It is an unnecessary bringer-downer.
Who’s saying the post was to anyone but myself? That’s really why I wrote it. However I appreciate the kindness, sincerely. What’s your name?
Ugh.
The word “Zen” is really starting to annoy me. Along with “Buddha,” “Buddhism,” “Buddha-nature,” et cetera. Fuck the Buddhas, fuck the precepts, fuck enlightenment. I fart on all of it. Why is everyone so preoccupied? Why bother worrying about that stupid shit? The Buddha is just another shackle, don’t you see? You think you’ve got it, but you’re still just clinging. Drop the act, drop everything. Stop all your useless striving. Wake the fuck up, open your eyes, breathe your first breath! Stop trying so hard. Damn.
“When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.”
—Zen Proverb
“Everything that comes together falls apart.”
—Intro to Zen
