« Zazen, if you don’t want it, you need it. »
Envy from the superficial strata of consciousness,
The need – here, of fulfillment and harmony, is not the domain of envy.
When craving governs, the ability to connect it to basic (substantive) needs
cannot activate.
Then it takes a “trick of fate”, phenomenal expression, or a “happy coincidence” (Huang Po)
or an exterior light brings the nature of the cravings and discharges some of their potential, of bewilderment.
This, too, is a happy coincidence between the outer agent and a sudden prospect of the being of envy, the result of a sudden window of maturity, of partial alignment.
The art of the master is to sow in the opening.
Franck – Nov 2022
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Ô QUE OUI !!!
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Is the opposite correct? If you want it, you do not need it.
I’m in Devil’s Advocate mood today…
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Precisely.
And this wanting is the exact reason why you actually need it,
As well as evidence you do not need it : meaning you already have it.
It is expressing itself within you at the moment you want it.
Practice is then a simple welcoming offers to the expression of what you already have.
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