#foyan

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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“It is as though you have an eye That sees all forms But does not see itself. This is how your mind is. Its light penetrates everywhere And engulfs everything, So why does it not know itself?”

- Foyan

Why Does It Not Know Itself? | QUIDNUNC CURIOUSEVERYTHING.BLOGSPOT.COM

[Alive On All Channels]

[allyouknowisalie]

Master Siushan said, “If you don’t see the original reality, obstacles will follow you all along; if people have obstacles, they go wrong countless thousands of times.”

Instant Zen (Foyan) #39: Watch Yourself:

[cobotis]

It is as though you have an eye that sees all forms, but does not see itself... This is how your mind is. Its light penetrates everywhere and engulfs everything, so why does it not know itself?...

~ Foyan

[terracemuse]

Who is it?  (Zen Master Foyan Qingyuan 1067-1120)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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“It is as though you have an eye That sees all forms But does not see itself. This is how your mind is. Its light penetrates everywhere And engulfs everything, So why does it not know itself?”

- Foyan Why Does It Not Know Itself? | QUIDNUNC CURIOUSEVERYTHING.BLOGSPOT.COM

[Alive On All Channels]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

My mother and I did not have an ideal or "close" relationship. Over her entire lifetime, our relationship was a work in progress.

I have come to feel in the years since her death that we were more alike than either of us realized. If we had understood our mutual strangenesses and accepted them earlier we could have been a much greater help and comfort to one another. Since I was wishing for a different mother and she was wishing for a different daughter, we were denied the joy that comes from understanding that we were each exactly what the other needed. We were each an answer to the other's prayer. This photo was a day after my son Max was born. I love that we are in bright sunlight and deep shadow at the same time. And the distortions across our faces connect us. Wonderful. I know that she has forgiven me. * "It is as though you have an eye That sees all forms But does not see itself. This is how your mind is. Its light penetrates everywhere And engulfs everything, So why does it not know itself?"

- Foyan 

[allyouknowisalie]

Now, don’t hold onto my talk; each of you do your own work independently. You may contemplate the stories of ancients, you may sit quietly, or you may watch attentively everywhere; all of these are ways of doing the work. Everywhere is the place for you to attain realization, but concentrate on one point for days and months on end, and you will surely break through.

Foyan

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

mom

My mother and I did not have an ideal or "close" relationship. Over her entire lifetime, our relationship was a work in progress.

However I have come to feel in the years since her death that we were more alike than either of us realized. If we had understood our mutual strangenesses and accepted them earlier we could have been a much greater help and comfort to one another. Since I was wishing for a different mother and she was wishing for a different daughter, we were denied the joy that comes from understanding that we were each exactly what the other needed.

We were each an answer to the other's prayer.

This photo was a day after my son Max was born.

I love that we are in bright sunlight and deep shadow at the same time. And the distortions across our faces connect us. Wonderful. I know that she has forgiven me.

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"It is as though you have an eye That sees all forms But does not see itself. This is how your mind is. Its light penetrates everywhere And engulfs everything, So why does it not know itself?" - Foyan