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for it -- for the miraculous, for the mysterious.
The life mystery has not to be solved because it cannot be solved. It has to be lived. One has to move into it, cherish it. It is a great joy that life is a mystery. It has to be celebrated.
Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you.
When you come to a Zen Master he simply helps you to be silent so that you can find your key which you are carrying all along the way, and you can find your door -- which is there -- and you can enter into your own innermost shrine.
And the last fundamental: Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality, it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that. It simply makes you more sensitive towards the beautiful, and that very sensitivity becomes your morality. But then it arises out of you, out of your consciousness, Zen does not give you any conscience as against consciousness; it simply gives you more consciousness and your More consciousness becomes your conscience. Then it is not that Moses gives you a commandment, it is not that it comes from the Bible or Koran or Vedas... it is not coming from outside. It comes from your innermost core.
And when it comes from there it is not a slavery, it is freedom. When it comes from there it is not that you are doing it as a duty, reluctantly. You enjoy doing it. It becomes your love.
These are the fundamentals. And now this profound sutra.
LIKE THE EMPTY SKY IT HAS NO BOUNDARIES,
YET IT IS RIGHT IN THIS PLACE, EVER PROFOUND AND CLEAR.
Replace 'it' by 'God' and you will immediately understand -- but Zen people don't use the word 'God', they say 'it'.
LIKE THE EMPTY SKY IT HAS NO BOUNDARIES,
YET IT IS RIGHT IN THIS PLACE, EVER PROFOUND AND CLEAR.
If you start looking for the sky you will never find it. If you start searching and you become very serious you will never find the sky. Where will you find the sky? The sky is not somewhere, it iS everywhere and that which is everywhere cannot be searched for. You cannot locate it; you cannot say it is in
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