A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Think of a TV screen that does not share the destiny of the characters in the program. The images and the screen are not actually separate, yet the images cannot change or contaminate the screen. In the same way, no matter how frightening or dangerous the “program” of your life may appear, the awareness in which it all unfolds remains untouched and free.
No effort by any character can make the screen appear, because it has always already been there. Likewise, no amount of sin or wrongdoing by the character can make the screen disappear. You are the ever-present, immaculate screen, not the personality in the show called “life.”
In an excerpt from his book When Things Don’t Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times, Haemin Sunim offers advice on finding the right path for yourself, not someone else.
In his book Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening, Chan teacher Guo Gu explains that we are all buddhas, and we are all already free.
No comments:
Post a Comment