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your practical side.
A consciousness harmonious with existence is under the care of existence. You have said to existence, "Now it is up to you. If you want me to breathe, I will breathe. If you don't want me to breathe, I won't. Up to now I have been a separate being, now I dissolve my separateness."
That's what Isan means, "I ADMIRE YOUR JUST EYE. You have understood what I have said, but I AM NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF THE MATTER."
Why is he not concerned about the practical side of the matter? Nobody needs to be concerned. In your enlightened being you have become one with the universe. You are no more.
Existence takes care of trees and birds and animals, why should existence not take care of you? In fact, you are existence's greatest flower. And when you become enlightened you have attained your destiny. Now everything is care of existence; you need not be worried about it.
ONCE, KYOZAN WAS ASKED BY A MONK, "CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE LAW BODY?"
"I CAN'T," SAID KYOZAN, "BUT THERE IS ONE WHO CAN."
THE MONK THEN SAID, "WHERE IS THE ONE WHO CAN EXPLAIN IT?"
BY WAY OF RESPONSE, KYOZAN PULLED FORWARD THE PILLOW.
KYOZAN'S MASTER, ON HEARING OF THIS INTERCHANGE, SAID, "KYOZAN IS USING THE BLADE OF THE SWORD."
What has conspired? The question that was asked is relevant, because Buddha says you have many bodies, but the ultimate body that is immortal he calls the Body of Law. `Law' gives a different connotation to the word. He calls it the Body of Dhamma, the body of nature. You have gathered many bodies around it; they will all fall down. Only the body that has been moving through eternity to eternity he calls your authentic body.
And the man who has asked Kyozan has not asked a nonessential point:
"CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE LAW BODY?"
"I CAN'T," SAID KYOZAN...
These points show the humbleness; these points show the simplicity. If he cannot explain, he will not try some arbitrary explanation. He will simply accept that, "I cannot, BUT THERE IS ONE WHO CAN."
THE MONK THEN SAID, "WHERE IS THE ONE WHO CAN EXPLAIN IT?"
BY WAY OF RESPONSE, KYOZAN PULLED FORWARD
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