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heart withdraws man dies, but the life that was is not finished. It may move into a new ripple, into a new flower, into a new cuckoo... millions are the ways. Or it may remain silent in the ocean of the cosmos.
Because it has chosen the fourth, Zen's standpoint is the most superior, the most delicate, and the most intimate one.
AN OLD ZEN MASTER SAID:
TURN YOUR HEART ROUND AND ENTER THE ORIGIN. DO NOT SEARCH FOR WHAT HAS SPRUNG OUT OF IT! WHEN YOU HAVE GAINED THE ORIGIN, WHAT HAS SPRUNG OUT OF IT WILL COME TO YOU OF ITSELF.
We are born looking outwards. Our eyes open outwards, our hands reach outwards, all of our senses are ready to receive the outward vibrations. But we don't have any sense available which gives us information about our inner being.
Meditation is the search for that hidden eye that can see your origin. It is called the buddha-eye. But a great turning is needed. You have to close off the world completely, even if just for a single moment, and give a turn to your whole being, to look inside the well from where you are coming.
And don't think about anything else, because this experience of looking into yourself will explain everything that was a question to you. Thousands of answers were there, but no answer was able to satisfy it.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE ORIGIN, THEN PENETRATE YOUR OWN ORIGINAL HEART. THIS HEART IS THE SOURCE OF ALL BEINGS IN THE WORLD AND OUTSIDE THE WORLD. WHEN THE HEART STIRS, VARIOUS THINGS ARISE. BUT WHEN THE HEART ITSELF BECOMES COMPLETELY EMPTY, THE VARIOUS THINGS ALSO BECOME EMPTY. IF YOUR HEART IS DRIVEN ROUND NEITHER BY GOOD NOR BAD, THEN ALL THINGS ARE JUST AS THEY ARE.
Zen has no idea of judgment. It never judges that somebody is a sinner or somebody is a saint. These are only waves; there is no need to waste your time on waves. If you know the ocean, you will not bother about the waves. One wave turns in one way, the other in another way, but they all belong to the same ocean and they all dissolve finally into the same ocean.
So the only thing worth consideration is not what is good and what is bad, but what is the origin from where your heart has come. It
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