Not to come, not to go -- Sandeep Chatterjee

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"Sandeep Chatterjee" <sandeepc@b...> wrote:

 

Hiya,

 

A taste of the haikus of Ikkyu, a Zen Master who "spoke" through this

medium.

 

" We come into this world alone

We depart alone

This also is illusion.

I will teach the way

Not to come and not to go!

 

 

 

 

 

I shan't die, I shan't go anywhere

I'll be here

Bt don't ask me anything

I shan't answer

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A monk asks Master Pai-Chang

"Who is the Buddha?'

Pai-Chang answers

Who are you?

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The question is hardly of any significance.

 

Who is the questioner is of significance.

 

The subtle answer that there is nothing "out there", no answers out

there.

 

In the question, is the answer.

 

 

 

" We come into this world alone

 

We depart alone"

 

This bromide has been repeated through centuries and all religions in

one form or the other have said the same thing, over and over again.

 

 

All togetherness is illusory.

The very idea of togetherness arises because we are alone and this

aloneness hurts.

 

So is born all our love affairs.

 

So love for woman/man, poetry, music, "spiritual seeking", an

observation of the entity, will show, how in thousand ways it is

trying only one thing "How to forget the fact that I am lonely?"

 

 

When you cannot wish away the transient nature of all "out there" and

turn to so called spiritual pursuits, in order to once again escape

your aloneness, the entity starts creating new illusions, Kundalini

rising, "God" speaking to you, visions, Bells ringing, Lights in your

chakras, just so that again you do not have to live alone.

 

Now an experience sustains 'you".

 

Now you have your "experience" to live with you and you can nurture

it, water it, feed it for the rest of your life and even start seeing

the halo around you.

 

 

" We come into this world alone

We depart alone

 

This much is true. But Ikkyu goes further

 

"This also is illusion.

I will teach the way

Not to come and not to go!"

 

 

If I change my pants in the morning and again in the evening, has

there been any coming and going?

 

Where is the going?

Who is there to go?

>From where can you come?

Who is there to come?

 

Ikkyu is saying all coming, all going, mere dreams, mere time

phenomena, soap bubbles.

 

When the "true" in you emerges, then there is no effort to be

anything.

 

One simply is.

 

That is the natural man of Zen.

Then he loves, not because he needs to love, he loves because he

can't help but love.

 

Love is there, love is flowing as a consequence of this "naturalness".

 

Like the sun.

It does not shine to provide Life to some and Death to others.

 

It just cannot help but shine.

 

And in that shinning one can receive Life, one can receive Death.

 

What is received has got nothing to do with the sun, it is to do with

the recipient.

 

The natural man of Zen is meditative, not because he meditates, but

because in him there is no disturbance found, the entity is no more,

the split is no more.

 

Calm, collected, integrated and then actions spring spontaneously

from this calmness.

 

And such actions can never be inappropriate to the "now", because

Existence cannot be inappropriate to Existence.

 

That is why Zen do not call the real man as spiritual, he is neither

worldly, neither spiritual.

 

He is in the world but not of the world.

 

He lives in the market place, but the market place does not live in

him.

 

"I shan't die, I shan't go anywhere

I'll be here

But don't ask me anything

I shan't answer"

 

(This is Ikkyu's Death verse).

 

"I shan't die,

 

Because in the first place I wasn't born.

 

Birth is an illusion and thus Death is an illusion.

 

For the asleep, Birth and death are their ideas.

 

And that is why the game goes on and on.

 

When you accept the premise of being born, death has been intertwined

in that acceptance.

 

Today medical science has arrived at a startling conclusion.

 

You age because you see evidence of ageing around you and this

prompts, activates that idea in you, that one "must" age.

Otherwise biologically speaking the human body has no reason to age.

 

 

"I shall be here"

Because man who is enlightened (so to say) knows no other space than

here, knows no other time than now.

Now-here is his whole existence.

 

I will be here

 

I have always been here

 

I am the taste of that eternity.

 

I am eternity.

 

I am

 

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I am the ad which appears.

 

 

 

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie