I didn't say it. The Chan masters said it. I merely agree with them!
There is an old passage, it is found in one of the first Chan treatises. In paraphrase:
It is like a man who is looking for the pearl on his headband. He searches and searches. He looks here and there all over the world, then one day he discovers he has been wearing it the whole time. All his searching was a waste of time, because his pearl was never lost from the beginning. How can you lose something that was never lost from the beginning. Not recognizing you have it is not the same thing as losing it.
This is posted from my cell,, I cannot delete that lower line there!
pearl was never lost from the beginning
Yes!
But it doesn't really matter to THUSNESS one way or the other whether I or anyone else agrees or not. Agreement and disagreement are still THUSNESS!
The way it was explained to me was:
if you are so divided in thought that your ego is noticeable, then get rid of it.
This is a great old book about it:
http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Buddha-Pi...5363997&sr=1-1
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Read through this, it gave me a good chuckle. That is all.
Originally posted by BawangOriginally posted by Bawangi had an old taichi lady talk smack behind my back. i mean comon man, come on. if it was 200 years ago,, mebbe i wouldve smacked her and took all her monehs.i am manly and strong. do not insult me cracker.
Simon McNeil
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"Well, I... I think that it... that it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em... and it's that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard; because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."
Great Chan Master, Dorothy Gale
"My Gung-Fu may not be Your Gung-Fu.
Gwok-Si, Gwok-Faht"
"I will not be part of the generation
that killed Kung-Fu."
....step.