SIT-A-LONG with JUNDO: Xin Xin Ming - (V) - The Single Way

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Continuing from last time's passage of the Xin Xin Ming ...


Live neither in the entanglements of outer things,
nor in inner feelings of emptiness.
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As long as you remain in one extreme or the other
you will never know Oneness.

Those who do not live in the single Way
fail in both activity and passivity,
assertion and denial.
To deny the reality of things
is to miss their reality.
to assert the emptiness of things
is to miss their reality.


Neither entangled in things, nor a captive of sweet emptiness. Rather, encountering each as one ... stillness in motion ... the sweetness in the bitterness ... the silence which speaks assertions and denials ... the things of the world as a dream, yet as real ...

This echoes other chants and writings ... The Heart Sutra ...

Form is not other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form

... The Identity of Relative and Absolute ...

To be attached to things is primordial illusion;

To encounter the absolute is not yet enlightenment.

... The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch reminds us how to live with Wisdom in a world of good and bad, beautiful and ugly: Do not throw them aside, nor cling to them or be stained by them ...

Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad men and good men, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this. Self-Nature contains the ten thousand things..."

"Although you see all men and non-men, evil and good, evil things and good things, you must not throw them aside, nor must you cling to them, nor must you be stained by them, but you must regard them as being just like the empty sky. ...


Seeing through-and-through this dusty world, even as we live and roam this dusty world.



Today’s Sit-A-Long video follows at this link. Remember: recording ends soon after the beginning bells; a sitting time of 15 to 35 minutes is recommended

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK3H_toXf70

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Thank you Jundo.

Gassho,

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PS - Also now on podcast.

Thank you Jundo Sensei. I liked the analogy of soup that you used. It made things as clear as the water left behind after you remove all of it's ingredients.

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Seeing both sides
Of the no-sided coin
In the dark
In the light
One eye open
One eye tight

Something like that ;)

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Thanks Jundo.

Dustin

Thank you, Jundo.

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Jundo,

Thank you for this teaching....arrrrrgh! ;)

Gassho,
Dosho

Thank you, Jundo.

Hope the eye gets better soon.

uggh, I injuries suck! I love eye injuries. There are no eye injuries :mrgreen:

So is it both form and emptiness arising simultaneously that allows us to know that there is form but not hold onto it so tightly? For instance with non-doing.... Non-doing isn't doing and it isn't just being lazy. Would that be a sort of acting where form (our self the actor and the thing being acted upon) merges with emptiness (no actor, nothing to be acted upon) and just does the thing being done?

Gassho for this teaching.

Risho

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A good teaching.

Gassho

Jen

No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body mind ...and still it hurts,
thank you, Gassho and all the best for the eye
Peter

Thank you Jundo.

Thank you Jundo ... this whole dance is truly wonderful! =)

Gassho
Shingen

s@today