ENLIGHTENMENt-buddha, dharma, sangha
Even before we practice it, enlightenment is there. But usually we understand the practice of zazen and enlightenment as two different things: here is practice, like a pair of glasses, and when we use the practice, like putting the glasses on, we see enlightenment. This is the wrong understanding. The glasses themselves are enlightenment, and to put them on is also enlightenment. So whatever you do, or even though you do not do anything, enlightenment is there, always. This is Bodhidharma's understanding of enlightenment. --Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Everything is buddha, dharma, sangha...
posted by Dog Hair @ 5:35 AM
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Everything, everywhere, every time...I mean, really, how could it be otherwise?
So then also this sitting at my desk in a home that is emptying itself of furniture, the forgetting or remembering of the banana for my sweetheart, the cold blown down to us from Minnesota, along with the puzzling need for so many reminders, these are the dharma.
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