Friday, August 1, 2008

The figure in this picture sits alone
he is not lonely
he is at one.
Why fight? Why argue?
In this world we come from nothingness we go into nothingness.

"What is called the spirit emptiness is where there is nothing. It is not included in man's knowledge. Of course emptiness is nothingness. By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.
That is emptiness.
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be emptiness. This is not true emptiness.
It is bewilderment.
With your spirit settled, accumulate practice day by day, and hour
by hour. Polish the twofold spirit of heart and mind, and sharpen the twofold gaze of perception and sight.When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is emptiness.
Until you realise the true Way, whether in Buddhism or in common sense, you may think that things are correct and in order. However, if we look at things objectively, from the viewpoint of laws of the world, we see various doctrines departing from the true Way.
Know well this spirit, and with forthrightness as the foundation and the true spirit as the Way. Enact strategy broadly, correctly and openly.
Then you will come to think of things in a wide sense.
Taking emptiness as the Way, you will see the Way as emptiness.
In emptiness is virtue, not evil.
Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, Spirit is nothingness." Teruro Magonojo, Shinmen Musashi 1645
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