Saturday 28 September 2019

364. ZEN REMARKS

364. Coming to rest in a deep interior silence is a beautiful experience. The temptation is to cling to what is so comforting, so restful. But the Way of the Awakened is without end and so we are challenged to step from the top of the hundred foot pole. 

Sunday 15 September 2019

363. ZEN REMARKS

363. Sengcan, the third Chinese ancestor, concludes his great enlightenment poem Xinxinming with the assertion 'Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday, no tomorrow, no today'. This might suggest that words can be dispensed with and that the truly enlightened will always maintain a noble silence. Clearly Sengcan would not agree with such a suggestion as he uses words to point to that which lies beyond their reach.