Verses1 There is a difference in size The sky and the earth are hanging Pero si se crea la menu diferencia, an abyss separates the earth from the sky.
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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 can't even guess what might be on the other side of the abyss., any kind of idea about it is an illusion.
In Buddhism we distinguish two truths, that of conditioned and unconditioned reality. From the truth of awakening, It is possible to integrate these two truths without any paradox., But from the shore of dualistic perception, An abyss separates us from the experience of unconditional reality.
How to experience unconditional truth? Through persevering practice. The Buddha never described the Nirvana, Because as soon as you conceptualize it, As soon as you use language, That is no longer. Any attempt to understand through language structures away from the experience of awakening.
Reality is how it is beyond the concepts and ideas we make of it. When we perceive reality from the intellect, We are using language and, therefore, “We create … Differences”. This means that we cannot try to apprehend reality through concepts, It is useless to try to catch with the mind what is beyond any concept. The Tao Te King2 Start with the phrase “The Tao that can be expressed is not the real Tao”. Reality is non-dos, indivisible. He Mahayana Buddhism3 claims that Samsara and Nirvana are not two, This reality as it is, It is already the Nirvana, But only the mind that has made the awakening can understand it beyond all conceptualization.
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- Of the work Xìn Xīn Ming singing to the heart of trust, of the third Chan ancestor Jianzhi Sengcan. Translation and comments by Dokushô Villalba. Editions i, 2008. [↩]
- https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A0od%C3%A9_j%C4%ABng [↩]
- Mahāyāna (Sanskrit: “Great Vehicle”, o Bodhisattvayāna, “Bodhisattva vehicle”)1 es, along with him Theravada, one of the two main branches of Buddhism and a term for the classification of Buddhist philosophies and practices. This movement accepts a large number of other texts (Sutras Mahāyana) and doctrines. [↩]
Zazen is the key that opens the door to infinity, Zazen is already infinity.