The Zen master gave a speech by candlelight in the evening next to the students gathered in the Zendo.
"Understanding that is the spirit of quiet, which helps and supports the development of wisdom and the extent to which the aid is wisdom, depends on the strength of the mind calm.
Peace can be more or less fair, or refined, and will promote the fact that Wisdom is too coarse, adapted or further developed. And 'then in your best interest to develop a calm mind, the highestdegree possible without adequate rest.
If we are attacked, resulting in easily because the peace of the quiet mind, we are reluctant to pass on the work of 'investigation. The study is the work that is of vital importance, if it ever acquire the wisdom necessary to free us from our sophisticated cycles of birth and death. "
I was impressed by the silence maintained by his students assembled. only hear the sounds of the jungle, and even theseSounds seem to magically disappear when the master has continued to speak.
"How can we investigate? To begin, we must look closely at our body and mind.'ll Start with our body and looks as if we look in another body, not ours because our body is too precious to us, at this point for an honest assessment.
Just look at this place, the Zen Master said, "This has been the head on his chest, arms, legs, e. He smiled and looked intoThe eyes of every student.
This took time, but it was powerful, and it was a lesson in itself for me. They noted that the patience with what he is saying about us, it would be necessary.
"We have things animal," he continued, "teeth, skin and nails of the hands and feet. Body hair and head hair But we do not believe that animals, and therefore we consider these things as beautiful, if they are connected, our -. our bodies, beautiful hair and nails when they fall outside theBody, however, what's more disgusting than a nail clipping or a bowl of rice in our hair in the soup, or for that matter a dead body in the heat of decomposition weeks in the jungle with animals and insects they party?
"We must therefore be considered the real truth of this point we hold so dear to see. We admit that this body soft tissue and bone in a simple
What is significant here? What do you love or on the neck? This body does not go beyond these bones in my armand this is the end, and if the bones are removed in the body, what remains?
All a bucket of mud remains, and if the water were removed in this bucket of mud as well, which would be left? A cup of powder. And when he blows the dust off? "
He took some ash from an incense burner next to his chair and put it in the palm of his hand. Then, with sparkling eyes, he blew it away, holding an empty hand.
He looked again into the eyes of each student and smiledwide, and when his eyes I arrived I was surprised to find tears for no particular reason.
The strong presence of the contraction-old had somehow feel incredibly out of this prison of the body for a short time. How can these things be explained?
"Look at this bag of skin on my stomach," said the Zen master, "and see that just under a lot of strange things. A pipe in my mouth just a bag full of undigested food andBelow are the intestines and feces.
A diaphragm pushes air back and forth in the lungs and kidney toxin, while the heart pumps blood tirelessly. "Do not look at these things worry, and try not disgusted by them. This is what we are. This is what our past karma we deserved this time.
"But it's a big problem with this body, we can not expect to obey and not to us about his activities is, without thinking about what we want and on.End is the way to go to the elements, and disappears without our consent, whether we like it or not. It does not follow our calendar, follow their own schedule.
This body is like a comfortable house near a river in full construction. Since in this house, knowing that a flood could wash away any time should we live, it would be foolish to be careless and inattentive to this place, which is at risk of disaster every time.
It would be imprudent not to consider escape routes, becausewhen to leave now, how could we ever get out in time.
Because we do not rely on this mortal body from us, we should be in something that you can trust, a life raft that carries us when our body is that it invests too long from now. Life goes fast, and a tide could come at any time. "
A Zen master cat jumped in her lap, and the Master, smiling broadly, cuddling and breaks his thesis to complete attention toAnimal, as if his speech was not the least importance compared to the little creature that was now his focus of interest. It purred satisfied, knowing as I do that in the hands of someone she could trust was.
The Zen master looked at the town meeting minutes in the meditation hall for a few, never in a hurry, and then quietly continued: "In the meantime, we have to live with strange things this body is that we, as those best suited to help drain the our Karma.
We must recognize, however, that this raw form is not our true nature, it is expressed in only a temporary body with sufficient awareness of our particular consciousness at this time.
We are all in the same boat, not all of us very different from others around the world - eating, sleeping, working, raising families, entertaining us - and every man on his way to happiness.
"Now, back to this point where I can find 'me' into it? Who or what is the Zen Master? I'm in my finger? Probably not, because if I lose my finger, I am the Zen master. If I lose my arm, I'm going? Yes, I'm not just my arm.
What happens if my body was gone, but I? I would still be the Zen master, should not I? Then the Zen Master must take account, in my. Yes, this is where I am! "
E 'was clever, as he tried to find through the denial, the Zen master, even if you feel something, I would.Everyone was very attentive when the Zen Master said, his eyes glued to the teacher.
It seems instilled confidence in those who lived with him, and he seemed to take things that are in every case, the things that had stalled, with no apparent way out.
Since, in addition to teaching at the level of instructing students, these students are quite advanced. He stayed for a few minutes to drink water, look at allsmiling in his fatherly way. This was not the smile of a man uncertain, it was a smile of a man he knew. . . and wanted to let us know.
He finished the water and continued: Well, since we can not find the Zen master in this body, he must be the spirit of living in mind. "Is this true? That 's what we need to find as you try to look at the Zen master.
Well, what is that we find what we find in our research is that this spirit is madefour aspects, the appearance of contact when something for the first time in the field of consciousness of our sense organs - the moment when we have a first taste, smell, touch, see, feel, think, or something like that - only the first time.
This moment is then replaced after the second time, the feelings - you are in a certain way, because the feeling of contact with a sense organ, you feel good, the desire to create worse, aversion creates, or neutral, that creates indifference.
ThisThe feeling is almost the same time then the acquisition of memory - the mind will try to identify the contact from memory, or if there is a new contact will file away for future reference.
Finally, imagination and thoughts hiking, playing for the contact, which can come with different feelings and ideas and projects. "
The Zen master apparently felt that the crucial point, as he has sought repeatedly to make sure we have a "contact is at this moment, if a sound affectsmy ear or a sight touches my eye. This contact takes only a moment, just after the moment of contact, a feeling, desire, aversion or indifference to the contact.
Then there is memory, recognizing what was the contact and store information. So there is sense contact with an object, as we believe that this power, and storage in the memory of experience, three steps.
The fourth step is when we use our imagination and the common opinion that in order to create excitement aboutorganize and formulate an action plan to come up with many ways to identify and resolve to push things away and avoid those desirable or undesirable.
"These four things arise and pass as a phenomenon apart, until we find a permanent way in any of them where is the contact Zen master? He is the first contact Zen? Perhaps, but if not, was the Then he must be master disappears early in feel - but if there is a new contact,there would be no initial feeling.
So, where could it be? It should be recalled. Yes, that's where the Zen master has finally found - in the memory, the memory is only a record of what happened in the past, presented in the spirit of each bit of memory is so dead. Memory could not, therefore, the Zen master as the Zen master is certainly not dead.
That is resolved! He has had extensive thoughts and imagination, all that remains. But wait a minute;Hiking thoughts and imagination based on memory, because memory is dead, past, thoughts wander and imagination must be dead too, but with a transfer or a new combination of the dead, the past events. "
The Master continued, we hide some of the Zen Master, do we have? Not so, "what is the Zen Master, maybe just an illusion? Now this is what we need to investigate the truth of the matter.
Or what ZenMaster? Please consider these things every moment of every day, so with every aspect. If you understand in your heart that the body is inconsistent and can not find your "I" then it is easier to accept that the mind is irrelevant and can not find your "self." May you find all reality, you can find happiness. "
The Zen Master returned to pet the cat, and said no more that evening. . .
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