WHEN WE LIVE inattentively we are apt to fall into partial discrimination. This is a state of mind in which egocentricity is fostered and human suffering enhanced. Therefore, whenever I become aware that I am relapsing, I remind myself that heaven and earth have the same root. Everything is One. The visual form of things is no different from the emptiness which is their essential nature.
Having read many books about Zen prior to enlightenment, I had the illusory notion that if I could attain enlightenment I would acquire supernatural powers, or develop an outstanding personality all at once, or become a great sage, or that all suffering would be annihilated and the world become heavenlike. These false ideas of mine, I now see, hindered the master in guiding me.
Before awakening I was very much worried about my physical condition, about death, about the unsatisfactory condition of society, and many other things, but after enlightenment they no longer upset me. Nowadays whatever I do I am completely at one with it. I accept pleasant things as wholly pleasant and distasteful things as completely distasteful, and then immediately forget the reaction of pleasantness or distastefulness.
——————————
The Three Pillars of Zen
Philip Kapleau. (1912-2004)
PART TWO
ENLIGHTENMENT
V
Eight Contemporary Enlightenment Experiences of Japanese and Westerners
3 Mr. K. T., a Japanese Garden Designer, Age 32
4 Mr. C. S., a Japanese Retired Government Worker, Age 60
——–
#BATRUTHIEN #THREEPILLARS #ZEN #PHILLIP #KAPLEAU
BTT_BA TRỤ THIỀN, Philip Kapleau,Đỗ Đình Đồng (Oct 2022)
TPZ_The three pillars of Zen, Philip Kapleau (Oct 2022)
BTT, TPZ mixed (Oct 2022)
More Literature, Self-Help on https://tranlich.com/facebook/YouTube.html
BTT, Text on telegram list 2
https://t.me/c/1860038863/83
————————-