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<br />A Man of Zenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367420133230902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554472387337651652.post-51272711197231082652016-08-08T12:51:00.001-07:002016-08-08T12:51:38.583-07:00"Without Love, a person does not live, a person only exists."<div class="_6a _29ee _4f-9 _43_1" data-hover="tooltip" data-tooltip-content="Shared with: Public" role="img">
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"Without Love, a person does not live, a person only exists."<br />
Throughout my life, I have been meeting people who are afraid of
falling in love and afraid of opening their hearts for the fear of
heartbreaks. However, there is no way around heartbreaks. Everyone
eventually will cause you disappointment willing or not. The only way to
develop a strong heart that is not afraid is in the same way that one
develops a strong muscle, exercising it. EXERCISE LOVE. The muscles will
hur<span class="text_exposed_show">t the first times after exercising,
but then they grow, become strong and instead of becoming more afraid of
hurting, they start craving exercising. The same happens to love. The
only way for one to become emotionally strong is through challenges and
heartbreaks. If you tackle those challenges and heartbreaks with
kindness, method, intention, consciously and voluntarily, Love will
never stop growing in your life. Otherwise, you will never live life
fully. "Where there is Love, there is Life". Without Love, one does not
live, one only exists.</span>A Man of Zenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367420133230902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554472387337651652.post-24890797218153121132015-07-24T08:03:00.001-07:002015-07-24T08:03:14.067-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finding this sentence was good to remind me what I tend to forget over and over and again. Clouded by thoughts, I stubbornly insist on thinking that I am my thoughts. Why would one insist on being thoughts when one is reality? Why would one insist on being a cage when one is the bird? Why would one insist on being a bird when one is the wide open sky ?</div>
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I am not a fan of Echkart Tolle. My girlfriend gave me his book and asked me to read it. That is the only reason why I am reading it. Regardless of my general dislike of his writings, the sentence above stroke a good cord inside of me. It seems to be true that despair itself is the seed of enlightenment. Two faces of the same moon.</div>
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This verse belongs to the Song of
Enlightenment written by Yoka Genkaku. It is considered a fundamental text in
Zen studies. One of the basic themes in the poem is the relationship between
Buddha-nature and Self-nature. An also, I risk to say, between phenomenon and
numinous. This is when Aristotle and Plato hold hands. Aristotle mostly
inspired the scientific way of thinking while Plato gave some theoretical ground
for religious philosophy to rely upon. </div>
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However, Yoka Genkaku
in the song of Enlightenment does not concern itself with separation and
categories as western philosophy usually does. The preferred approach of zen is
to find communion among all beings, animate and inanimate, through our
commonalities. </div>
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The ultimate
meaning of the concept of “Emptiness” in Buddhism is that all beings are empty
of identity, because we are all together one sole being. Before the 20<sup>th</sup>
century, this was mostly a philosophical subject. With advent of Quantum physics
Emptiness became a scientific certainty. Religion and science found a common
ground. Belief and faith can be replaced by appreciation as it always being the
attempt of zen practice. When a zen practitioner bows to the Buddha statue, the
intent is actually to bow to the Buddha nature present in all individual selves. </div>
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Phenomena do not
occur independent from each other. Individuality is just a conceptual tool to
study and deal with the all-embracing, interconnected and interdependent
reality. The reflection in the water, all the myriad beings, is just perceived
as individuals due to the limitations of our human perception. Separation is an
illusion. As every piece of knowledge, that realization brings us freedom but
also bring us responsibility. It can set us free from loneliness and isolation.
However, it also brings the inescapable necessity of seeing your neighbor as yourself.
Therefore, you better love your neighbor as yourself as Jesus said.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Zen has no gods. However, it intensely
focus on the godliness of all beings. The main goal of zen practice is to
unveil one’s eyes to realize such ever present godliness. This realization does
not come through the belief in doctrines nor through the faith in an imagined
God. For zen, every being (animated or inanimate) is sacred. However, such
sacredness comes as fruit of a peaceful rebellion against everything that is
so-called sacred. All of us reflect a truth that is one and the same for all. All
beings are together one sole being. Therefore, zen laughs at sacredness because
everything is sacred.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Only seemingly a paradox, Truth is to
be found through inquiry and doubt, through the realization that there is no
absolute truth. All truth is relative depending on how we reflect the same one
truth existent inside each other. The only absolute is relativism. Truth may be
only one. However, it manifests in a unique way through each one different
being. That is why zen laughs at absolutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If your belief and truth is shaken
by laughter, how strong and real is it? Laughter is the killer of false truths,
self-importance and delusion. Laughter is an awakening alarm from falsehood.
Laughter is only a threat if one is attached to false gods. If there is a god
in zen, and there is none, that god is laughter.</span></div>
A Man of Zenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11016367420133230902noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554472387337651652.post-82196448475079996022014-12-12T08:26:00.001-08:002014-12-12T08:28:33.468-08:00Buddha is Coca-Cola<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last night I had a dream in which a Zen Master told me: "Buddha is Coca-Cola." This picture is very illustrative. <br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo credits: <a href="http://www.dvidshub.net/image/851724/planet-earth#.VEvt5hZ5fxB">Dvids</a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
verses above seem to be pregnant with a beautiful double meaning. It may be
impossible to figure out what Han San really said in the original Chinese. However,
this translation done by <a href="http://www.unc.edu/~jpseaton/">J.P.Seaton</a>
in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590309057/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3?pf_rd_p=1944687442&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1619021684&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1TT969A74NDTP6EDEDBW">Cold
Mountain Poems</a> give the reader much to think and, mainly, to feel.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
does the “within” refer to in this case? Is the verse saying that everything
within Earth is alone? Or is the verse saying one is alone and have all within
oneself? Since it is written in poetic language, plus, being a pre-zen Buddhist
poem, I would not be surprised if the verse had both meanings at the same time.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We are
all alone. Nobody can live other’s journey. However, we are all together in journeying
individually. At the same time, all the individual journeys compose the only
one journey that exists, the journey of the whole Universe. And, as parts of
the Universe, each one of us, all beings, is the entire Universe. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By the
way he is the full translation:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Green water in the stream in the pass,</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">white water rising the clear-welling spring…</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Han Shan’s moon’s a flower, white as well…</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So the darkest secret, the spirit by itself illumines</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gaze into the emptiness, to the ends of Earth…</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You’re alone, with all within…</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Poem XXXIII, pg. 49)</i></div>
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