Don’t take this opportunity for granted and don’t waste it in pursuit of frivolous desires.ģ. Human life is an invaluable opportunity that must not be squandered. Your supreme goal is always The Supreme.Ģ. EVERYTHING! This does not mean you do not participate in the world, it means you participate according to the discipline your spiritual practice is creating for you. Your responsibility in life is to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your lives.”Ī few important aspects of this quote that I think are worth highlighting are below.ġ. Time passes swiftly and opportunity is lost. “Let me respectfully remind you, life & death are of supreme importance. I hope it motivates and uplifts you as much as it has me. This Zen quote is often used as a prayer in Zen monasteries and I came across during my Zen Meditation training at Zen Mountain Monastery in New York. But we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it.Since Friday is for sharing the thoughts of other Masters of Meditation, let me share with you this profound Zen Buddhism quote that has been an inspiration to me throughout my spiritual journey. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as-Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so-I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are actually-if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning- you're not something that's a result of the big bang. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. But so we define ourselves as being only that. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. “It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.” Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.Īnd this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. “I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane.
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