#ch'an

[primavereautunni]

"Se tu sei in grado di trovare il bene in ciò che male si dice di te, chi ti offende diverrà la tua guida spirituale".

Yongjia Xuanjue, Il canto dell'illuminazione, Ortica editrice 2017.

[sesiondemadrugada]

Ch'an (Francis Lee, 1983).

[slamdunkelheit]

Later as these monasteries flourished and more monks were needed, new monks began to arrive. They came in carts, needing yokes and poles to carry all their possessions. And everybody thought, "Oh, they are too worldly. They won't get anything done." But they did, didn't they? And now, when I travel someplace and I see monks getting on trains and airplanes with their matched sets of leather luggage, I find myself saying, "Oh, they are too worldly. They won't accomplish anything." But they will, won't they? You will, won't you?

Xuyun

[astranemus]

For Buddhism the problem of lack can be resolved only by ceasing to avoid it and instead becoming-one with it: letting-go of oneself and falling into the void, in order to realise that the void is not really void but the nondual realm of the Buddha-dharma, as Ch'an master Huang-po put it. What does this mean in terms of nihilism? To stop evading the debacle of all meaning and accept it, which requires experiencing the meaninglessness of one's life -- an anguish not to be recommended lightly. Such understanding of the solution also transforms our understanding of the problem, for this solution is usually understood as the problem. This implies that true nihilism is less the debacle of meaning than our terror of that debacle and the ways we flee it, which includes a compulsive need to find some meaning in life as a bulwark against that threat. If so, nihilism is not our lack but the fear and denial of that lack, experienced in this instance as impending loss of meaning. Insofar as Nietzsche's will-to-power is in flight from lack, then, the will-to-power is nihilism. Eternal Recurrence insures that flight will have no cloture, for it tries to fill up lack by flight itself, by repeated recurrence of the passing moment. Thus eternal recurrence would not be final victory over nihilism, but  the final victory of nihilism: in grasping at the fleeting now by making it recur, it misses and loses the now that right now does-not-fall-away, and deflects us from the opposite solution of yielding to the nonbeing we most dread, which  we might discover to be not so dreadful after all.

David Loy, Beyond Good and Evil? A Buddhist critique of Nietzsche

[icnbuyszen-blog]

ICNbuys Zen Quotes.

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[chinneths]

The more we get, the more we want. The better we get at getting what we want, the better we get at wanting. But the better we get at wanting, the less we want what we get.

Peter Hershock

[wudaoshi]

Elegancia

El maestro zen Tetsuō escribió las siguientes palabras en el cartel colocado en la sala donde mantenía el fuego encendido:

«Sé justo y honrado, consciente de los principios de la naturaleza, compasivo y generoso con los demás, libre de codicia, satisfecho. Cumple tus tareas cotidianas correctamente, sin errores. Hazte cargo de las cosas sin apegarte a ellas.

Ser libre de los sentimientos ordinarios hacia los objetos mundanos es lo que se llama la elegancia de los clásicos. Eso no se encuentra entre la gente de moda actual. Por esa razón, cierro mi puerta y no admito visitantes.

No tengo una gran reputación, ni deseo un nombre famoso. Para vivir como quiero, rechazo la incompetencia y deseo únicamente completar lo que naturalmente debe completarse. No soy el instructor de nadie. Las personas que intentan aprender de mí están locas. Por eso estudian mi locura, y no estudian mi corazón.»

[wudaoshi]

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