Spontaneous Transmission
Master Dogen taught:
(1) Sit in the full lotus posture with the body.
(2) Sit in the full lotus posture with the mind.
(3) Sit in the full lotus posture dropping off body and mind.
To sit in the full lotus posture with the body requires a physical effort not to think but to do.
To sit in the full lotus posture with the mind requires a mental effort not to do but to think.
To sit in the full lotus posture dropping off body and mind feels as if it is effortless; it is a spontaneous process, like a great body of water moving imperceptibly downstream.
Miscellaneous views are utterly irrelevant to the true meaning of Master Dogen's Zazen teaching, which passes from teacher to student, person to person, spontaneously, like a sound vibration passing from one tuning fork to another. All else is only vanity.
(1) Sit in the full lotus posture with the body.
(2) Sit in the full lotus posture with the mind.
(3) Sit in the full lotus posture dropping off body and mind.
To sit in the full lotus posture with the body requires a physical effort not to think but to do.
To sit in the full lotus posture with the mind requires a mental effort not to do but to think.
To sit in the full lotus posture dropping off body and mind feels as if it is effortless; it is a spontaneous process, like a great body of water moving imperceptibly downstream.
Miscellaneous views are utterly irrelevant to the true meaning of Master Dogen's Zazen teaching, which passes from teacher to student, person to person, spontaneously, like a sound vibration passing from one tuning fork to another. All else is only vanity.
posted by Mike Cross at 1:18 PM
1 Comments:
To sit in the full lotus posture dropping off body and mind feels as if it is effortless; it is a spontaneous process, like a great body of water moving imperceptibly downstream.
An elegant and mighty statement. Well put. Inspirational. Puts my present little mental turbulence in perspective.
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