This Sangha does not exist

An investigation of reality

This World does not exist
This Sangha does not exist
Our teachers do not exist
outside our own mind.
It is all a projection of mind.

Your Sangha is not my Sangha
Your teacher is not my teacher
Your world is not my world
And my world is not real.

Our Sangha is me projecting a Sangha
the way I think and expect a Sangha to be.
Our teachers is me projecting teachers
The way I expect teachers to be
Zen is me projecting Zen
The way I expect Zen to be

Seeing not what is but seeing what is not
There is no border.
Not between me and you
Not between me and sangha
Not between me and Buddha
Not between this and that
It is all one!

All is dropped and now see what is really there
This and that no more
No you, no me no anything
Just one vast, unending everything
that we can all live and exist in.
Play and fight with
Laugh and cry about
Sit and participate in
As long as we all know
it is not real.

Deep bows

Enkyo

Real. Not real. Not one, not two.

Thank you, Enkyo.

Gassho
Andy

That was a very nice poem by you about our Zen Sangha. I like it. Really, I do. It was real, man. :p

Gassho, Jundo

It's all part of the universal flow.

Thank you, Enkyo.

Gassho,

Kyonin

Very nice Enkyo, very nice. :)

Gassho
Shingen

Groovy Enkyo. I like it. One to take away and think about. Thanks.

Gassho
Matt

Thanks for that Enkyo! Only recently have I begun to experience that. In another way of expressing it I've recently thought just because I hear a sound that doesn't mean that the silence departs. Gassho, John

gassho1

Reality check:
Yeah. It's right there in front of me, still not there.

A friend was angry at me for weeks, and I didn't know till yesterday.

A chestnut fell on my head *ouch*... didn't see it coming.

Got a call about work, from someone who has followed it for years.. never knew he existed.

The bottom step of the deck has rotted through, when no one was looking.

Went to an indian cafe for mango lassi. It was the first time. It was busy and is always busy. Without me ever knowing.

Whole worlds carry on without me.

Gassho. Daizan