Nov.23.2009
7:16 pm
by Kozan
Flowers Of Emptiness
My life is not theoretical. It is real. In this life, at all times, all things are possible. Only I can obstruct myself. I have met many students of Zen over the years, and one thing that seems to be common, is the lack of belief in their own innate wisdom. As if what the Buddha taught and lived is theoretical, as if the enlightenment of the great Masters of the Song and Tang dynasties were only a dream of the distant past, as if the realization, the Daigo, that Dogen Zenji expounded in sutra after sutra was only possible for him, an exceptional person, to attain.
It is only so because you believe it to be so. The mind is vast and limitless, far beyond our personal views. And yet, with our own personal and collective karma, we give it our twist. It is like placing the tree of life in a jar, and wondering why it is all bent and withering, trapped within the confines of a tiny space.
Do not limit what is possible when you choose to take up a wisdom path, a Bodhisattva’s Way. This very ground is complete throughout time and space, manifesting through five skandhas, your five skandhas, as it’s own unique expression of Universal Enlightened Mind or Buddha Nature. You are not enlightened only if you think so…
You were created for the enjoyment of the Universal Enlightened Mind, for the Buddha Nature itself. This is just one fabulous playground, it is you and it is not you. Use your imagination, it is your own light. Believe it.
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Poignant visual of the tree in a jar. Funny, just this evening I was listening to Adyashanti talk about the playfulness of Existence manifesting itself as you, as me, as ego and all that.