Right HERE!

[pinoybuddhist]

I'd just finished my yoga routine yesterday afternoon, and I remembered I hadn't done my daily metta prayer yet. So I thought, oh well I still have time and just sat there on the yoga mat silently going through the prayer. And somewhere in the process of offering metta to my mother who's miles away in another city, it occurred to me that she was just RIGHT HERE with me. And not only that, everyone and everything, the whole universe was just RIGHT HERE, not metaphorically but literally, RIGHT HERE!

I'm not talking about having a vision or hallucination of my mother sitting on the yoga mat with me or anything trippy like that. It's more like a quiet realization but beyond intellectual realization. Just for one moment the notions of "here" and "there" and "near" and "far" were dropped and there was just this intimacy, this RIGHT HERE-NESS.

And of course Treeleaf is a good expression of this RIGHT HERE. All over the world we sit together - dropping here and there and now and later and live and recorded - just RIGHT HERE. But there's knowing this and there's knowing this.

gassho1

Rafael

[Taigu]

Good! Even very good! Now move on! Throw this away and yourself with it !

Gassho

Taigu

[Taigu]

If you bring me an inch of delusion, i ll kick this butt of yours.
Same if you turn up with an inch of realization, butt kicked for sure!

The true conduct is beyond inches and presentation.
Find the true person behind these games
And bring the bastard
And we ll sit and laugh together

Gassho



Taigu

[Taigu]

In short: empty handed is best.

Take care


Taigu

[pinoybuddhist]

If you bring me an inch of delusion, i ll kick this butt of yours.
Same if you turn up with an inch of realization, butt kicked for sure!

The true conduct is beyond inches and presentation.
Find the true person behind these games
And bring the bastard
And we ll sit and laugh together

Gassho



Taigu

[claps]

Thank you Taigu.

gassho1

Rafael

[Jinyo]

If you bring me an inch of delusion, i ll kick this butt of yours.
Same if you turn up with an inch of realization, butt kicked for sure!

The true conduct is beyond inches and presentation.
Find the true person behind these games
And bring the bastard
And we ll sit and laugh together

Gassho



Taigu

[claps]


Gassho

Willow

[Seizan]

I second Willow :) Thank you Taigu, and thank you Rafael. I know the feeling you described, which gives Taigu the right to kick my butt!! Just kinda the quiet peaceful relaxation of the mind because something was right and suddenly seemed to make sense. Okay, I'm throwing it away *hides*

Gassho,
DAni

[Omoi Otoshi]

Thanks for sharing Rafael! That's great!
Don't get stuck! :)

[Omoi Otoshi]

If you bring me an inch of delusion, i ll kick this butt of yours.
Same if you turn up with an inch of realization, butt kicked for sure!

The true conduct is beyond inches and presentation.
Find the true person behind these games
And bring the bastard
And we ll sit and laugh together

Gassho



Taigu

Sawaki Roshi couldn't have said it better! :)

Gassho,
/Pontus

[Mp]

Thanks for sharing Rafael ... :)

Gassho
Michael

[Geika]

And somewhere in the process of offering metta to my mother who's miles away in another city, it occurred to me that she was just RIGHT HERE with me. And not only that, everyone and everything, the whole universe was just RIGHT HERE, not metaphorically but literally, RIGHT HERE!

I have had that feeling a few times. It's beautiful, and then I must let it pass through.

I present my ass for a kicking. [gassholook]

[disastermouse]

Rafael,

You've had this experience loudly. You may at some point have it quietly too, but if you think 'right here', you've already travelled a million miles away and put a real chasm between self and other.

Taigu punches everyone but his hand is never closed into a fist. True compassion! He should punch me for being so sanctimonious.

Back to the bench!

Gassho,

Chet

[pinoybuddhist]

Chet,

I had this sense as I was typing the original post that neither what I was typing nor what I was remembering was that... you know...That. Still, I felt I had to say something - if only to have a teacher wield the virtual equivalent of a kyosaku to whack/punch/kick/tap this
Back to the bench! into this skull-bones-skinbag.

Yep, back to sitting it is. :)

gassho1

Rafael

[Taigu]

Your skinbag is very precious, Rafael.

Nothing wrong with being a skinbag :D

Attachment to our thoughts and beliefs is the problem.

You had to say something...act something then. Do something.

Saying is, as Chet puts it, too late, too far. And then self and others are just two.

No need for a kyosaku, don't you see real life with a massive one?

Everyday I give and receive this kyosaku, without a single inch of wood.


gassho


Taigu

[pinoybuddhist]

gassho1

Rafael

[Geika]

With every breath and every sight a swak!

[disastermouse]

Chet,

I had this sense as I was typing the original post that neither what I was typing nor what I was remembering was that... you know...That. Still, I felt I had to say something - if only to have a teacher wield the virtual equivalent of a kyosaku to whack/punch/kick/tap this into this skull-bones-skinbag.

Yep, back to sitting it is. :)

gassho1

Rafael
I wish I'd have had someone to smack me after my first real 'Holy Shit' kensho moment. It would have saved me YEARS of attachment. Then again, maybe those years of hung-up-ness have prevented my backsliding. Maybe not. Dunno.

Chet

[Eika]

Nicely said, Rafael.
_/\_
Eika


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[Dosho]

I wish I'd have had someone to smack me after my first real 'Holy Shit' kensho moment. It would have saved me YEARS of attachment. Then again, maybe those years of hung-up-ness have prevented my backsliding. Maybe not. Dunno.


Chet,

I have a feeling that you are exactly where you are supposed to be. :)

Gassho,
Dosho

[Kyonin]

Yesterday I had to wait for a couple of hours at the dentist office.

I didn't even have to pick up a magazine.

All I did was to be there.

It was perfect.

Afterwards, life went on as usual.

[Myoku]

Thank you everyone,
Gassho
Myoku