The well-known Zen Buddhist phrase ‘the finger pointing at the moon’ refers to the means and the end, and the possibility of mistaking one for the other…
Trevor Leggett
The Old Zen Master
At the beginning you have to take up a koan riddle. One such is this: ‘What is your true face before father and mother were born’. For one facing the turbulence of life and death, such a koan clears away the sandy soil and opens up the golden treasure which was there from the beginning, the ageless root of all things…
Cutting off the bull’s horns, by Trevor Leggett.
We go round looking for opportunities, trying to create opportunities, so we can bring out the big gun. But actually people somehow get an instinct for not getting in front of a big gun, even though it may be hidden in the bushes…
Compassion is catching by Trevor Leggett
“Yes, the compassion ration certainly went up and up, didn’t it?” agreed the priest. “My own teacher used to say that Compassion is catching.”
Instruction, observation, and experience. by Trevor Leggett
So we have these two extremes — blind faith without enquiry, and enquiry which is no real enquiry at all; it’s just an endless sort of doubt, and still lacks focus…
The Willow by Trevor Leggett
Thought I would like to share this verse and Zen Calligraphy with you from a new printing of The old Zen Master by Trevor Leggett. Very apt in the current financial crisis…
At the beginning you have to take up a koan, Zen master Bukko
Zen sitting is not some sort of operation to be performed. It is going into one’s true original nature before father or mother were born. The self seeks to grasp the self, but it is already the self, so why should it go to grasp the self? Look into it…
Only One Way, by Trevor Leggett
It is worth knowing that one can get hypnotized into thinking that there is only one way to do a thing correctly.
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