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08.10.1997 - Interpretation of dali48
Life has a meaning, but a strange one - When you come to the end of the path and find perfect insight - you will see that enlightenment is a joke... (J. W. van de Wetering)
Sitting still is a method of creating a distance, isolating ourselves - not just against the happenings around us - but also against what is going on inside us...
The mysticism is as old as the world - and "enlightened, wise, holy, prophets, adepts, bodhisattvas and buddhas" have emerged from all schools and forms of practice...
In every training the ego is crushed! - Zen education promotes awareness - and it means that you concentrate on everything you do, try to make everything as good as possible - and are aware of your circumstances and the role you play in your environment - When suddenly an unforeseen situation arises - you know how to meet it, and can save others from it by saving yourself...
Old, sick, poor, oppressed, all who were somehow miserable - were kept away from the palace (see city center, etc. - d.48), and the prince only saw seductive women and happy young men...
The core of happiness is suffering, for we know that this will come to an end - Everything is temporal, everything will pass away, and cease to exist! - The only sure thing is death...
Suffering arises through desire, the desire to have and to be - The desire to have and to be can be overcome - The desire can be overcome by choosing the 8-fold way...
We do not consider that our body is only an empty shell that migrates into the garbage, the cemetery, the crematorium - The ego, the false I, which we drag around with us with so much trouble and feed it continuously, is a cloud form, and consists of snapshots from the baby till the old man...
What we did last year is irrelevant today - and what we are now doing - will be pointless and forgotten in one year...
But even if we know, the desire remains - and continues to gnaw in secret... (J. W. van de Wetering)
Jan Willem Lincoln "Janwillem" van de Wetering was the author of a number of works in English and Dutch. Contents. 1 Biography; 2 Bibliography. 2.1 Grijpstra ...
Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the ..... Contrary to the popular image, literature does play a role in the Zen training. Zen is deeply rooted in the teachings and doctrines of Mahāyāna ...
Hanyu Pinyin: Chán
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