Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Meditation is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious endeavor. It is not introspection. Do not desire to become a buddha. (Dogen)
I was at my favorite Thai restaurant munching away happily and looked out of the window. Two high school girls went giggling into their favorite pizza joint. I saw the sunlight reflected in a window with sparkling intensity. A tree was swaying in the wind behind the shiny building. An oversized bulldozer passed by. The driver seemed aware and proud of the power under his fingertips.
As I went home, I was wondering whether to write this up. What’s the point, I asked myself, when a driver from the left cut in. “Doesn’t he know that right traffic goes before left?” I was just about to go down that lane of traffic retribution when it occurred to me “life as is” happens without the “I” telling stories. That’s when the mind became still again. Existence is, and it’s a pleasure to experience it silently!
Where does one have to go to observe what comes and goes?
One is that to which everything comes to present itself.
-Wu'Hsin
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