The moon in an old bucket Taoism and Zen by Yeiazel
The moon in an old bucket The Satori, Enlightenment to the conscience of the Buddha, enlightenment, according to the doctrines of Zen, emerges at a impromptu event, a chance, a chance in the prepared mind to welcome him. Like a thief in the "empty house", the soul freed from its "ego".
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A nun was studying Zen, day after day for thirty-three years. She entered the monastery as a young novice at 17. She was fifty now. Her life was completed fertility. She did not keep bitterness. She attended to the daily lives with patience and equanimity. She cooked rice or toasted barley, it was morning and evening to get water to remote wells a hundred feet. Sometimes a cloud of melancholy visited her, she drove. She practiced zazen regularly, she pondered, she studied the writings of the great masters of the past. But she had never known Satori unimaginable peace, which floods the soul suddenly astonished laughter, the laughter of the Enlightenment.
One night she returned from the well and the night was falling. She watched without thinking reflects the moon in the water bucket. It was an old bucket, which she had repaired the bottom with woven bamboo. Suddenly it gave way, water escaped, and the moon disappeared immediately with water from the old bucket. At that moment, she knew the Satori. She was free.
Zen is an intimate experience, which can unite the visible and invisible, the relative and absolute terms, what is happening and what remains. It is neither good nor evil, neither yes nor no, neither empty nor full.
" It is beyond the world of opposites, a world built by the intellectual distinction ..." wrote D.-T. Suzuki. Elusive, yet he like any human enterprise, and in the case of Buddhism, temples, traditions, rituals, codes, language. Christian, if I believe in the value of Zen in Christian life is that the Zen is tied to no religion, no belief. It only invites more authenticity, not to retreat into dogmatism, not to stagnate in the rites lifeless. There is fruit in the greatest masters of simplicity, selflessness, spirit of poverty, compassion, love, joy, balance and serenity. (Sometimes called the religion of Zen serenity). But its exact nature eludes analysis. Zen is like light, and what about the light, otherwise it illuminates, transforms, enchants reality! The tales are among other means "clever" - painting, Noh theater, the archery, Chano-yu (the tea ceremony), architecture, gardens, poetry (haiku), zazen, silence ... - An expression, an indication of a path. " is the finger pointing to the moon ," says the Chinese proverb (and the fool looks at the finger). Zen is a lamp lit a fire on the hill, a conscious awareness.
The nightingale!
hundred people
how much notice?
