Zen story: Allowing life to be itself in you is what Zen is all about
@innertalks (21903)
Australia
August 9, 2021 8:00pm CST
The Zen master, Wertlick Fredszki, was giving a talk on life, and the living of it to his students.
Let us eavesdrop on what he said to them:
"Life lives on itself until you live on it too. This means that you and life are incompatibly matched until you allow life to live itself in you. All you need ever do is to be the watcher and just watch."
"Let life be, and learn from it, as when you try to be yourself, you are a foreigner in life, and will learn nothing, as learning does not go from you to life, but only from life to you."
"Love fits into life, by its truth squeezing out of life into you."
"This means that to fully live, you must fully love, but allow life to be fully itself in you too, and this will allow love to blossom in you, and reach into life, and so reveal the hidden truths of both life, and love to you then too."
"Life is love living in you, and you become then alive in love, as much as you fully live, alive in that life."
"The wise do not try to adjust themselves to life, nor do they allow life to adjust itself to themselves."
"No adjustments are necessary on either side. Just let life live in you being you, and then you will live in life, being your best self then too."
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A talk from a Zen master brings new life into his students.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
11 Aug 21
we start with the beginner's mind, that open mind that allows for both acceptance and doubt. in that mind, we find our path shining like the yellow brick road ont the way to Oz.
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
12 Aug 21
stopping occasionally to roll around in the poppies.
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@innertalks (21903)
• Australia
11 Aug 21
It is probably just in the wordage, but I would say that no beginner's mind ever exists.
We are not given a beginner's mind, as such, as the mind, that we are given is linked into all besides itself, so to all knowledge too, via the heart, and soul of you, and it is more getting to know how to use this mind fully, which is required, because the mind itself never alters from when it was first given to you for this life.
The thing that changes is your consciousness, your conscious ability to use this mind both consciously and subconsciously, and this comes about in you by your allowing yourself to grow not from your mind, but from the seed of growth in your heart, which builds you into a receiving station so that experience might cement home truth in you, so to speak, and build wisdom acquired by such conscious awareness sparking to life in you with your mind its tool for you.
So, learning how to use the tools provided is what life is really all about.
@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
12 Aug 21
@mythociate or simply smelling the last flower on the bush before your neighbor catches you!
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
10 Aug 21
'Be the change you long to see in the world.'
That's the "being"-quote that this brought to mind.
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@innertalks (21903)
• Australia
10 Aug 21
Yes, we will never see change, even if it happens all around us, if we do not change too in ourselves, is true too, I think.
@Shiva49 (26661)
• Singapore
10 Aug 21
In times of great challenges that I faced a few times in my life, I could see me from the outside and even observe how I dealt with them. I wondered who was the other person. Even now I can see me from the outside when I want to.
We need to embrace life in all its pureness than feel alienated, disoriented.
Love seals all holes, emptiness, and separateness, so embracing it will give us deeper meaning to our pursuits here.
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@innertalks (21903)
• Australia
10 Aug 21
I often see myself like that in my dreams. It is like my conscious mind, or maybe it is my soul, is just watching the thoughts, visions, and imaginings playing out in free-play, from my unconscious mind too.
I think we think consciously, while awake, and subconsciously, while we are asleep, but all thoughts are monitored, even originated by our souls, when we let them come through unchanged from that higher part of us too.
Letting love receive our soul thoughts, via our hearts, from our soul ensures that happens; letting our thoughts pass over/through our minds first, often distorts them, even as our dreams are often distorted too, until we bring in our higher self to unentangle them for us again too.
@Shiva49 (26661)
• Singapore
11 Aug 21
@innertalks That is well said Steve, we need to tune in to the right channel through love than get a distorted picture ingrained in us and then spoil, ruin, our path here.
Our predicament arises due to our ignoring the inner yearnings that originate from the same source. We then work at cross purposes, highlighting separateness than the unity in diversity.
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@Shiva49 (26661)
• Singapore
11 Aug 21
@innertalks Yes, we need to rein in the wavering, restless, fickle, mind and that requires a proper grounding in our soul. As I said my soul had come to my rescue when I found myself in dire straits.
Then why not all the time? I have tried to live from it and then I found nothing can faze me in my journey.
As a species, we are given the awareness but we spurn it to live in misery and division.
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