2024Feb9 D6 Staring into the Abyss with Friends

If we are to truly become free, truly come to Awakening, we must let go of the face mask, the false image we take to be our self. The classic Zen saying describing this point in our practice is, "Let go your hold on the cliff, and leap, hands held high, into the fiery abyss." Sound terrifying? It can seem so. Yet when this body dies at the end of its physical life we will have no choice but to let go. How on earth to work on this through our Zen practice?

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✨out of not one thing✨
arise the ten thousand things
o-o-o ~ ensō
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Oh, oh, oh, it’s magic you know
Never believe it’s not so
~ Pilot 🎵
Swans rise and fly toward the sun.
What magic!
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The masters only point the way …
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Everything arises and passes away.
When you see this, you are above sorrow.
~ The Dhammapada