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…
Trevor Leggett
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.
Trevor Leggett
Trevor Leggett (1914-2000) lived for a considerable time in Japan. He was the first foreigner to obtain the Sixth Dan (senior teachers degree) in judo from Kodokan and has written several well-known books on the subject. He has also written… Read More ›
Buddhism as music — Vedanta as architecture.
Buddhism can be looked at in terms of music, whereas the Vedanta of the Upanishads could correspond to architecture. As an example, take the familiar opening chords in Rachmaninov’s popular Second Piano Concerto.