Compassion has three faces

Brooms, spoons, phones
And behind
Kannon s hands and eyes

Just being caught into the fires of life, getting through a very bumpy patch , I am reminded of the great kindness and endless freedom of Kanzeon very much alive in many of you guys as well as in the heart and action of simple people I meet on my way. And opening my eyes I see how compassion has three faces: wisdom, love and action. Without action you only find pity, without wisdom only clumsy and panicking attempts, without love a very dry manipulatipn of reality. These three faces cannot be planned or cultivated, they arise together as one at the same time. You cannot do it with your head or with your hands or heart only, you are compassion as the living Buddha sits with mind, body and bodhi.

If you dislike this teaching or think I am talking bullshit, aim the arrow at yourself, break your own heart and find the hidden boddhisatva in your own bag of skin!!!

Gassho

Taigu

Great. Not BS. Wisdom with heart.
Gassho
Myozan

Dear taigu;

Good to hear you are working through to the other side. Much metta towards you and Mineko
and the three faces of compassion :shock: :lol: 8)

Simple, and yet so powerful. How often we forget one of those three faces: wisdom, action and love when trying to do good.

How difficult is to take that bodhisatva out...

Thank you so much Taigu.

Taigu,

I am happy that you are doing well. I totally agree ... compassion is simple ... if compassion is not simple, then there is too much BS. I very much appreciate your insightful view on things. Be well.

Gassho,
Michael

Gassho

Daido

This is a beautiful teaching, Taigu. I hope Mineko is feeling better.

Thank you and Gassho,
Ekai

Appreciate the way you put it into words.

Compassion...Heart, Head and Hands... Hip Hip Hooray :D
Thank you master Taigu
Best wishes for Mineko and you

Gassho

Gassho

Gassho.

Wisdom, Love, Action = Majushri, Avalokitesvara, Samantabhadra

Gasho

Gassho...and that's no BS. Thank you Taigu.

Gassho,
Dosho

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Hope things turn a corner soon.

Without compassion we are all lost.

Gassho

Willow

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Compassion like a tiger would leap
A subtle and sudden bloom
A rash
A slow rush
Kannon s action is fueled
By the wounds and scars
Yours
Theirs
everybody's

Kannon gives a tongue to sky and sentient beings
She-he gives arms to the invisible
Ears to songs and words themselves
Kannon appears unoticed
Ordinary miracles
Sweat, laughs, grease,
Trafic, busy buses, lights and shadows
Kannon is sometimes an old mad woman
sometimes wrapped in the shape of a child
in a doctor, a caretaker, a policeman, a nobody
Kannon is flesh and blood of compassion

when you give this self to zazen
it becomes you
but it comes unoticed
you cannot see it
cannot hear it
can't even touch it
only once it's gone
only then

Thank you Taigu Sensei. Your words have made great companions throughout my day.

Gassho,
Hoyu

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Taigu

Compassion like a tiger would leap
A subtle and sudden bloom
A rash
A slow rush
Kannon s action is fueled
By the wounds and scars
Yours
Theirs
everybody's

Kannon gives a tongue to sky and sentient beings
She-he gives arms to the invisible
Ears to songs and words themselves
Kannon appears unoticed
Ordinary miracles
Sweat, laughs, grease,
Trafic, busy buses, lights and shadows
Kannon is sometimes an old mad woman
sometimes wrapped in the shape of a child
in a doctor, a caretaker, a policeman, a nobody
Kannon is flesh and blood of compassion

when you give this self to zazen
it becomes you
but it comes unoticed
you cannot see it
cannot hear it
can't even touch it
only once it's gone
only then

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Tears of joy

Thank you Teacher

Quote:

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Compassion like a tiger would leap
A subtle and sudden bloom
A rash
A slow rush
Kannon s action is fueled
By the wounds and scars
Yours
Theirs
everybody's

Kannon gives a tongue to sky and sentient beings
She-he gives arms to the invisible
Ears to songs and words themselves
Kannon appears unoticed
Ordinary miracles
Sweat, laughs, grease,
Trafic, busy buses, lights and shadows
Kannon is sometimes an old mad woman
sometimes wrapped in the shape of a child
in a doctor, a caretaker, a policeman, a nobody
Kannon is flesh and blood of compassion

when you give this self to zazen
it becomes you
but it comes unoticed
you cannot see it
cannot hear it
can't even touch it
only once it's gone
only then

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Thank you Taigu ... just beautiful. :D

Gassho,
Michael

three bows
to the three faces.
one more bow to the one face
of all three.

thank you so much for sharing.
-a

Such a wonderful description of how nirvana lives within dukka, where we so least expect it.

We are with you, Taigu.

Gassho
Myoku