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the point of holding richness? Even that can be dispossessed.
When all duality disappears -- pleasure and pain, happiness, unhappiness, day and night, life and death -- then for the first time you are in God.
THE ZEN MEDITATION OF THE MAHAYANA
IS BEYOND ALL OUR PRAISES.
GIVING AND MORALITY AND THE OTHER PERFECTIONS,
TAKING OF THE NAME, REPENTANCE, DISCIPLINE,
AND THE MANY OTHER RIGHT ACTIONS,
ALL COME BACK TO THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION.
Hakuin says: All that has been done in the name of religion down the ages, can be reduced to one single thing, and that is meditation -- DHYANA. And what is DHYANA? Becoming aware of your physical body -- the first DHYANA, the first step of meditation. Becoming watchful of your physical body. Watch yourself walking, watch yourself eating, watch yourself running, talking, listening. Watch. And through watching you will see you are different from the physical body. Because the watcher cannot be the watched, the observer cannot be the observed, the seer cannot be the seen, the knower cannot be the known.
Watch the physical body, and the second body will arise. It is there -- but you will start feeling. You will start recognizing it, it will start penetrating you. This is the first step of meditation: watch the physical body. Then the second step, and the last, is: watch the bliss body. Watch your ecstasy. And then you will suddenly see, the watcher cannot be the watched. 'Ecstasy is there, but I am far away from it. Bliss is there, but I am the knower of it.'
Then you start getting into the third body, the body of truth. Then you become a pure witness -- SAKSHIN. And that is liberation. Hakuin says it happens through meditation that you discover, or REDISCOVER, your Buddhahood.
BY THE MERIT OF A SINGLE SITTING
HE DESTROYS INNUMERABLE ACCUMULATED SINS.
HOW SHOULD THERE BE WRONG PATHS FOR HIM?
And just in a single sitting it can happen. Hakuin does not preach the gradual path, Hakuin preaches the sudden path. It can happen in a single moment. It can happen now. You need not postpone it for tomorrow. Who knows? Tomorrow may never come. It
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