small mind, big mind - cont'd

[Guest guest]

Big mind tends small mind's belongings, as Suzuki

Roshi put it, like a large pasture tends a wild

horse. He said if you put that wild horse -- our

ordinary grief, our angry confusion -- in a

constricting stall (small mind) it will go mad

kicking out the slats, a danger to all including

itself. But that same wild horse, given the lush

green vistas and wildflower expanses of a large

pasture (big mind), will buck and snort at first,

but eventually settle down, roll in the grass and

rest quietly.

 

 

-- Stephen and Ondrea Levine