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Posted by Butcho
on 4/8/2009, 11:01 pm, in reply to "Re: "Chop wood, carry water.""
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: "For adepts the principle of
: maintaining
: concentration and insight is not a matter of
: effort; it is spontaneous and effortless,
: with no particular time frame. When seeing
: and hearing, they are just so; when dressing
: and eating, they are just so; when
: conversing with people, they are just so;
: whatever they are doing; walking, standing,
: sitting, reclining, speaking, silent,
: rejoicing, at all times and in everything
: they are just so.
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: Like empty boats riding the waves, going
: along with the high and the low, like a
: river winding through the mountains, curving
: at curves and straight at straits, without
: minding any state of mind, buoyantly going
: along with nature today, buoyantly going
: along with nature tomorrow, adapting to all
: circumstances without inhibition or
: impediment, neither stopping nor fostering
: good or evil, simple and straightforward,
: without artificiality, perception normal.
: Such is the mind of the person who clearly
: sees the Buddha way."
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: Master Chinul (1158-1210)
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: Dailyzen.com
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: Butch, excellent words those
: are...beautifully describing living the Way.
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: And I agree with gar that the peaceful mind
: is one of undifferentiated attention, not
: caught on anything, flowing with what is, as
: it is.
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Hey josef,
It takes faith to let go.
Butcho
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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