Meeting and Disappearing

Shido Bunan, master of the master of Hakuin:
« There is no instruction, no particular method to study the way,
It is enough to see and hear directly.
By seeing directly, the action of seeing is no more.
By hearing directly, the action of hearing is no more.
For this to happen, the inside and the outside must be merged, a unified, solid, and perfectly peaceful state. »

Merging the inside and the outside necessarily means questioning the point of contact, the strip where these two spheres meet.

Observing this strip of sand between two oceans is observing oneself.
What is our inner skin?

Standing here, laying flat the subtle skin,
The one that determines the inside and outside of the mind

Seeing directly,
Hearing directly,
It’s a matter of nanoseconds.

The building machine stands at the point of contact,
When listening, seeing, are done directly, the machine turns off, or stammers without any real consequence,
The strip of sand is submerged,

The sand here becomes similar to the sand of the seabed.
When sitting, it is given to note the non-immediacy of seeing, listening, the five senses, the non-immediacy of reading thoughts: the thought strikes the mind, the mind constructs.
Seeing that the mind constructs is already a life programme.

Not making the sitting the object of an additional construction is also a necessity… very easily hidden, so much so that it is pleasant to build an image of disciple, spiritual person, pilgrim…

©FJ  Dec. 2024
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