Today’s favourite poses: Child's Pose
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10-15, give or take 15....kidding. (a solid 15)
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from ZEN - Insight)
It has been asked, "The principle and knowledge of the subtle truth of suchness is mysterious and profound: how can those of shallow perceptions gain insight? One should not misrepresent Buddha - Buddha did not speak in this way. All things are neither deep nor shallow in themselves - it is just that you yourself don't see, and think that means extreme profundity. When you have insight, everything you see is subtle; why put the bodhisattvas on a pedestal, or particularly set up sages? As Master Sheng said, "It is not that knowledge is deep- things are deeper than knowledge." This is just an expression of lament that knowledge cannot reach things. Don't be discriminatory, don't keep a grasping and rejecting attitude. For this reason it is said, "Truth has no comparison, because it is not relative to anything." The scriptures have body and mind for their meanings: the Flower Ornament scripture says, "The body is the treasury of truths, the mind is the unobstructed lamp. Illuminating the emptiness of all things is called liberating people."
Hui-chung
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