THE MASTERY
OF YOUR ATTENTION WILL COME
WHEN YOU WILL START SEEING the truth..
*note* Allen Iverson talks about practice,after he was accused of not practicing..lovely..in other words he mistakes the source with manifestation(I'm making a parable here.not picking on Allen...I'm trying to explain something,grasshoppers..kisses to Allen) because very few people I've encountered really were willing to explain me how they practice(meditate)...usually they told me,,I am a Buddha..the mighty one,,..therefore I don't practice)
This is what I call the disease of confusing the source with it's manifestation..grasshoppers from heaven..remember what I told you long ago..that you are a resonator?..while the mind enlightenment is the only one stable(after you got the pure awareness,or the radiant light of the creation,and you know it..and that nothing or nobody can take from you,even after death)the body enlightenment ,or the ,,enjoying,, body is way other issue,because the simple fact that manifestation is eternal in time space(even though nothing happens in the witness state,since the universe is just a collapsing energy into itself,for the purpose of experiencing itself..yet..the witness,the real you... is above time/space..but you can't know yourself other then becoming dual in manifestation..ponder...you are the pure spirit experiencing itself as soul..while the spirit is ONE and the same in creation..the soul is individual..as a resonator in a mirror..his individuality is a resonating factor,unless you realize the unity of the 2)
But lucky of us..masters like Dogen have already explained this calamity,or the paradox...with no need for me,the mighty mahayogi..loved in the 3 worlds..worshiped in 10 and celebrated in the 18th also..to further explain..that's why I love these dead masters from the past..they did most of the work..while I am just enjoying their wisdom muscles..see?..kisses to them!
Thus spokenth the mahayogi,in front of his bewildered grasshoppers from heaven!
May all of you live long and prosper..and please cultivate the tree of life,in practice(meditation)
Love to you all..grasshoppers from heaven:)
-added by danny-
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http://www.zenki.com/index.php?lang=en&page=bendo01 - Q: Those who do not know Buddhism have to attain enlightenment by zazen and training. What use is zazen to those who have clearly obtained enlightenment?
A: Though I do not talk about last night's dream and cannot give a paddle to a woodcutter, I have something to teach you. The view that training and enlightenment are not one is heretical. In Buddhism these two are the same. Because this is training enfolding enlightenment, the training even at the outset is all of original enlightenment. So the Zen master, when giving advice to his disciples, tells them not to seek enlightenment without training because training itself points directly to original enlightenment. Because it is already enlightenment of training, there is no end to enlightenment. Because it is training of enlightenment, there is no beginning to training. Sakyamuni Tathagata and Mahakasyapa, therefore, were both used by training based on enlightenment. Training, based on enlightenment similarly moved both Bodhidharma and Hui-neng. This is typical of all traces of transmission in Buddhism. Already there is training that is inseparable from enlightenment.
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Because training even at the outset transmits a part of superior training, we fortunately gain a part of original enlightenment in this natural way. You must understand that the Buddhas and patriarchs emphasized the need for intensive training so as not to stain the enlightenment that is self-identical with training. If you throw away superior training, original enlightenment fills your hand. If you abandon original enlightenment, superior training permeates your body. In China I saw Zen monasteries in many districts, each with a meditation hall where 500 to 1,200 monks lived and practiced zazen day and night. When I asked the Zen masters who have been entrusted with the Buddha seal,What is the essence of Buddhism?
they answered:Training and enlightenment are not two but one.
So they urged disciples to follow the footsteps of the Zen masters in accordance with the teachings of the Buddhas and patriarchs. They recommended zazen not only to their disciples, but to all those who seek the true way, to those who yearn for true Buddhism, regardless of whether one is a beginner or an advanced student, a commoner or a sage. As a patriarch (Nangaku) has said:It is not true that there is no training and enlightenment, but do not stain them by clinging to them." Another patriarch has said: "He who sees the way trains the way.
You must, therefore, train within enlightenment.
To nourish the vital energy, keep watch in silence;
In order to subdue the mind, act with non-action.
Of movement and stillness, be aware of their origin;
There is no work to do, much less someone to seek.
The true and constant must respond to phenomena;
Responding to phenomena, you must be unconfused.
When unconfused, the nature will stabilize by itself;
When the nature stabilizes, energy returns by itself.
When energy returns, the elixir crystallizes by itself;
Within the pot, the trigrams of heaven and earth are joined.
Yīn and yáng arise, alternating over and over again;
Every transformation comes like a clap of thunder.
White clouds form and come to assemble at the peak;
The sweet nectar sprinkles down Mount Sumeru.
Swallow for yourself this wine of immortality;
You wander so freely—who is able to know you?
Sit and listen to the tune played without strings;
Clearly understand the mechanism of creation.
It comes entirely from these twenty lines;
A true ladder going straight to Heaven.-Daoist text -
To us all towns are one, all men our kin. Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill. Man's pains and pains' relief are from within. Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !." - Tamil Poem-
