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[Guest guest]

zen is originally for the sake of birth and death, no other thing.

 

what do I mean by other things? arousing the mind and stirring

thoughts right now; having contrivance and artificiality; having

grasping and rejecting; having practice and realization; having purity

and defilement; having sacred and profane; having Buddhas and sentient

beings; writing verses and songs, composing poems and odes;

discoursing on Zen and the way; discoursing on right and wrong;

discoursing on past and present.

 

these various activities are not relevant to the issue of birth and

death; they are all " other things. "

 

Chien-ju

 

it doesn't matter. nor does anything you think or say.

 

..b b.b.

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111

wrote:

>

> zen is originally for the sake of birth and death, no other thing.

>

> what do I mean by other things? arousing the mind and stirring

> thoughts right now; having contrivance and artificiality; having

> grasping and rejecting; having practice and realization; having purity

> and defilement; having sacred and profane; having Buddhas and sentient

> beings; writing verses and songs, composing poems and odes;

> discoursing on Zen and the way; discoursing on right and wrong;

> discoursing on past and present.

>

> these various activities are not relevant to the issue of birth and

> death; they are all " other things. "

>

> Chien-ju

>

> it doesn't matter. nor does anything you think or say.

>

> .b b.b.

>

 

 

In the matter of life and death, there is a story *born*,

it's a subject with/of which we are enamored, night and day,

day and night....

 

The object is to use all the senses to perceive the object

of/in awareness.

 

....And the question will always be: how can awareness be?

 

Much love,

Anna