Each step is the journey; a single note the song.

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Light will someday split you open; 
even if your life is now a cage…
Love will surely burst you wide open, 
into an unfettered, blooming, new galaxy.

~ Hafiz

 

 

Will you dance?

“Here is the road: the light
comes and goes then returns again.
Be gentle with your fellow travelers…
as they move through the world of stone and stars
whirling with you yet every one alone.
The road waits.
Do not ask questions but when it invites you
to dance at daybreak, say yes.
Each step is the journey; a single note the song.”

~ Arlene Gay Levine

 

 

The Paradox of Inherent Perfection

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An excellently articulated discussion about Being of the World yet freeing the self of participating in (what is optional) suffering. Profound, yes?

Bob OHearn's avatarThe Conscious Process

Monk protests: “But Master, yesterday you said that Mind is Buddha.”

Ma Tsu: “That was like offering yellow leaves to a child and telling him it is gold — just to stop his crying.”

Monk: “And what about when the child has stopped crying?”

Ma Tsu: “Then I say, Not Mind, Not Buddha, Not things!’

The Mind is the Buddha’ is like medicine. ‘No Mind, no Buddha’ is the cure for those who are sick because of the medicine.”

Ma Tsu’s teaching above is one effective method the Masters employ to tear away any lingering remnants of borrowed support, leaving the disciple with nothing to fall back on, no comforting religious consolation or conceptual crutch to cling to. The purpose is to fully plunge them into the Unknown, or “the Realm of the Real Dharma”, as Huang Po poetically calls it, beyond philosophies and partial realizations. It’s also why Ramana…

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