Wisdom Hovered

What is clear is that as long as one operates from a dynamic of content conquest, whether as a consumer, reader, listener or producer, author, composer,
… the potential value of this content can never penetrate the mind that pursues it in such a way.

Even if such a mind were to come into contact with a transcendental wisdom,
It would not be able to offer it a permeable soil..

While the contact is about to occur, the spirit of quest would already be oriented towards other sources and supports.
Although it readily asserts the opposite, such a mind is not in love with wisdom, but burns with a fervor for the quest itself. Thus, the appeasement of this quest is not, nor can it be, on the menu..

Taoism teaches that the more one searches, the less one finds,
In Zen, it is said that when the disciple is ready, the master arrives.

If the disciple is the mind and the master, wisdom,
Then, the disciple can only meet the master when he has stopped running after the masters.
And the sitting works towards the clarity of the mind, towards its teaching,
Not in 2 stages
This is also the practice-realization of Dogen,

When the mind touches the point of appeasement,
Let the disciple stop chasing the skirts of the masters,
He then finds himself in contact with wisdom.
This is because in reality, the mind never ceases to be in contact with wisdom,

Simply, the turmoil of its quest blurs the reality of its presence,
Once the mind is appeased, wisdom appears.
And when the disciple stops chasing the skirts of the masters,

The true master appears.
In reality, the true master is already there,
Invisible to the eyes of the agitated disciple.

This is why we can say, in Zen and elsewhere, that when the mind stops its games of quest,
when the disciple calms down, each phenomenon, object, person that he meets becomes his master.

The one who was called a disciple,
truly becomes the disciple,

The master remains the master,
And wisdom hovered everywhere
without a grasping mind on which to rest.

©FJ  Dec. 2024
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