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make it a learning, don't make it your knowledge. Rather, look at what I am saying and drop all that you know. Don't make it a new addition to your old mind.
THIS WAY AND THAT WAY
I TRIED TO KEEP THE PAIL TOGETHER,
HOPING THE WEAK BAMBOO WOULD NEVER BREAK.
Can you find anything weaker than the mind? Can you find anything more filmy than thoughts? Can you find anything more impotent than thoughts? Nothing happens out of them, nothing comes out of them; they just continue. They are made of the same stuff dreams are made of -- nonexistential really, just whirlpools in the emptiness of your being.
SUDDENLY THE BOTTOM FELL OUT -- and Chiyono says, "It was nothing on my part. Rather, I was doing the contrary; keeping the pail together this way and that way and hoping that THE WEAK BAMBOO WOULD NEVER BREAK. SUDDENLY THE BOTTOM FELL OUT -- it was nothing that I have done, it was not my doing."
SUDDENLY THE BOTTOM FELL OUT -- it was an accident. NO MORE WATER; NO MORE MOON IN THE WATER -- EMPTINESS IN MY HAND.
"And the water disappeared. And the pail disappeared. And only emptiness in my hand."
And this is what a Buddha is: emptiness in the hand. When you have emptiness in the hand you have all, because emptiness is not a negative thing. Emptiness is the most positive thing, because everything comes out of nothing. This all is born out of emptiness. Emptiness in the hand means source in the hand.
A seed is there, so small, and then a big tree is born. From where does this tree come? Look in the seed, break it, and try to find out. If you break the seed you will find emptiness there. From that emptiness comes this big tree, from that emptiness comes this whole universe -- from nothing comes being.
Emptiness in my hand means all in my hand -- the very source from where everything arises, and to where everything goes back, returns. Emptiness in my hand means all in my hand, everything in my hand.
"And suddenly it happened. I cannot congratulate myself for it. Suddenly it happened. I was doing the contrary."
That is why saints have always said... those who believe, or those who use the terminology
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