It is our desire and rejection, our inability to fully accept ourselves, to open, the one that creates a deep dissatisfaction. When the road is done, everything is perfect as it is. Everything occupies its exact place because if something was missing or leftover, since everything is interrelated, Everything would completely change and it would not be as it is. What is the point of, well, long or reject? The only thing we will get is more dissatisfaction.
How to understand the deep meaning? Reading and studying? To some extent intellectual study is necessary, but we can only reach deep wisdom through direct experience.
Verses1 違順相爭是爲心病 The struggle between desire and rejection makes the heart sick. When we feel divided, immersed in the constant internal struggle of taking sides for or against, we experience gradual wear and tear that leads to heart disease. This disease is a manifestation of the lack … Read more
Verses1 欲 得 現 前 莫 存 順 逆 In order for it to be declared before the eyes, you do not have to be for or against anything. The uncultivated mind is like a neglected garden., full of weeds or a monkey, jumping from one side to the other without stopping, discriminating from … Read more
Versos1 millimeter There is a difference between heaven and earth Pero si se crea la menor diferencia, an abyss separates the earth from the sky. Commentary An abyss is a “immense immaterial reality, unfathomable or incomprehensible”((according to the RAE)). In the ordinary state of illusory perception we cannot even imagine awakening, we cannot even guess what could … Read more
Versos1 But don’t hate love dongran understand Cuando no hay amor ni odio Se manifiesta su naturaleza luminosa. Comment. We continually hold on to what we want (“amor”), and we reject (“hatred”) what is unpleasant to us without being aware of it. Our practice is to observe, stalk and see directly how this manifests itself … Read more
Versos1 There is no difficulty, only choice. La Vía Suprema no es difícil. Just avoid attraction and rejection. Comment. What is the Supreme Way? Where to find it? Master Dogen Zenji wrote: “The eyes are horizontal, the vertical nose”. here and now, right under your feet you have the Way available. To … Read more
Versos1a kind of peace of mind and nature, self-defeating,duality disappears spontaneously. When we drop ourselves into the serene confidence of the heart, we naturally dwell in the serenity of samadhi2. This is the state we cultivate during the practice of zazen3. But, How can we transfer this serenity to our lives? … Read more
Versos1 Don't live in the void and endure it.. In our daily lives, we are immersed in a constant flow of stimuli, events, emotions and thoughts, what in Buddhism is called “phenomena” or “dharmas”. These phenomena are changing, transitory and lack … Read more
The dualistic nature of our perception conditions our experience of reality. Our mind continually divides the world into categories of opposites.: good and bad, me and the others, pleasure and pain… This unconscious way of acting, it disconnects us from reality, as it is, distorting it with our mental projections.