Enlightenment

With palms together,
Good Morning Everyone,

There is a koan about a man who complains upon seeing a picture of a bearded Bodhidharma: “Why hasn’t that fellow a beard?”

Mumon comments, “If you want to study Zen, you must study it with your heart.”

When we see what we want to see, we are not seeing at all. If we convince ourselves we are awake, even if we have had a glimpse, we are a universe away from the clear eye. As in climbing a mountain, we should climb without climbing; in sitting, we should sit without sitting.

This is our way.

The other day I went to a mountain and believed I had climbed it. Silly me.

Be well.