Original Face
Thursday, November 30th, 2000Original Face is the reality of realities:
Stretch your hand to the winging bird.
Vertical nose, horizontal eyes - and then?
What if your mind is empty?
- Tokugaku (15th Century)
Original Face is the reality of realities:
Stretch your hand to the winging bird.
Vertical nose, horizontal eyes - and then?
What if your mind is empty?
- Tokugaku (15th Century)
If you have not
Linked yourself
To true emptiness,
You will never understand.
- Morihei Ueshiba
The moonlight
High in the sky,
Shining through the eves,
Falls on a mind
Undisturbed by what
Might have been.
- Rikyu
Truth is perfect and complete in itself.
It is not something newly discovered;
It has always existed.
Truth is not far away.
It is nearer than near.
There is no need to attain it,
Since not one of your steps leads away from it.
- Dogen
Deep in the mountains,
on an isolated peak,
I live on my own in a stand of pines.
In a simple hut,
I sit meditating without concerns,
silent and alone, dwelling peacefully, lighthearted.
Once you’ve awakened,
it’s done:
no effort needed.
- Yung-chia (d.713)