(Zenkei Shibayma, On Zazen Wason, Kyoto, 1967, p. 28)
[Found in Zen and the Birds of Appetite by Thomas Merton]
Tales from outer turnip head...
Sunday, November 12, 2017
A Buddhist Still Life... mirrors
what is, simply is...
"The mirror is thoroughly egoless and mindless. If a flower comes it reflects a flower, if a bird comes it reflects a bird. It shows a beautiful object as beautiful, an ugly object as ugly. Everything is revealed as it is. There is no discriminating mind or selfconsciousness on the part of the mirror. If something comes, the mirror reflects; if it disappears the mirror just lets it disappear ... no traces of anything are left behind. Such non-attachment, the state of no-mind, or the truly free working of a mirror is compared here to the pure and lucid wisdom of Buddha."
(Zenkei Shibayma, On Zazen Wason, Kyoto, 1967, p. 28)
[Found in Zen and the Birds of Appetite by Thomas Merton]
(Zenkei Shibayma, On Zazen Wason, Kyoto, 1967, p. 28)
[Found in Zen and the Birds of Appetite by Thomas Merton]
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