What is the nature of Zen? This thing everyone must realize for themself. Is it a tight, rigorous path, or a loose ambling stroll, . . . a well worn trail or a breaking through the bush journey? In my being a Zen priest, a teacher, of course you realize that if someone says Zen is A, I would suggest it was B. If they say B, I would suggest it is A. If they said A and B, I would say neither and suggest C. . . . . . . Why might this be so? . . . . . What is the nature of dokusan . . . . . . of the understanding of the Lankavatara sutra, which the Bodhidharma so championed . . . . . or of its derivatives in increasingly condensed form, the Diamond and Heart, adapted because many, perhaps most, practitioners have trouble accepting the non-ambiguity of the Lanka. . . . . . Perhaps it deals with notion of there being a pure or most virtuous path as required by so many minds, or the rejection of one by so many others. It is often so very very easy to know, to accept or reject for so many. . . . . . but perhaps that is the nature of suffering . . . . of delusion. If that is so, what then might be the nature of being awake . . . . of the clarity of the Buddha and patriarchs spoke.
Posted on: Sun, 11 May 2014 18:10:41 +0000
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