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everyday life, your actions, your words, your silences, your music, your dance. Unless a buddha can dance, and you disappear in that dance, the enlightenment has not happened yet.
It is within your reach. Just collect... and persuade the buddha.
Inch by inch, we are every day bringing the center and the circumference of your life closer. Any moment the spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
Nivedano...
(drumbeat)
Come back. But come back as buddhas, awakened, silent, graceful.
Sit for a few moments just to recollect the golden path you have traveled back and forth.
Remember, whatever you have experienced at the center has to become part of your daily life. Don't think that meditation has to be set apart from your life, no; that kind of meditation is not the right kind. The right meditation is that which becomes your very life.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Beloved Master.
Zen: The Mystery and The Poetry of the Beyond
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Spread the message
9 January 1989 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Archive code: 8901095
ShortTitle: POETRY02
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 111 mins
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
A MONK ASKED KOYO SEIJO, "DAITSU SAT IN ZAZEN FOR TEN KALPAS AND COULD NOT ATTAIN BUDDHAHOOD; HE DID NOT BECOME A BUDDHA. HOW CAN THIS BE?"
SEIJO SAID, "YOUR QUESTION IS QUITE SELF-EXPLANATORY."
THE MONK ASKED, "HE MEDITATED SO LONG; WHY COULD HE NOT ATTAIN BUDDHAHOOD?"
SEIJO SAID, "BECAUSE HE DID NOT BECOME A BUDDHA."
AT ANOTHER TIME, A MONK ASKED ROSO, "WHAT IS MEANT BY `IN FRONT OF YOUR NOSE'?"
ROSO RESPONDED, "SLENDER BAMBOOS CANNOT BE USED AS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; A GOURD CANNOT RETURN TO THE TRELLIS IT GREW ON."
SAIGUN ONCE ENTERED A TEMPLE AND NOTICED A SPARROW MAKING DROPPINGS ON THE HEAD OF AN IMAGE OF BUDDHA. SAIGUN SAID TO NYOE, A DISCIPLE OF MA TZU, "HAS THE SPARROW THE BUDDHA-NATURE OR NOT?"
NYOE ANSWERED, "YES!"
SAIGUN SAID, "THEN WHY DOES IT MAKE DROPPINGS ON THE HEAD OF BUDDHA?"
NYOE REPLIED, "DOES IT MAKE DROPPINGS ON THE HEAD
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