ENLIGHTENMENT Moment-Day-Week-Life
During the first watch of the night of enlightenment Buddha with a clear mind saw his previous lives...one, two, up to 1000's of his previous lives. How about you?
During the second watch of the night Buddha saw the universality of birth and death, of cause and effect, of coming and going, of impermanence. How about you?
During the final watch of the night he saw the co-arising of all phenomena; the dependence of causes and conditions. He saw suffering, the cause of suffering and the release from suffering. How about you?
During the second watch of the night Buddha saw the universality of birth and death, of cause and effect, of coming and going, of impermanence. How about you?
During the final watch of the night he saw the co-arising of all phenomena; the dependence of causes and conditions. He saw suffering, the cause of suffering and the release from suffering. How about you?
posted by Dog Hair at 2:51 PM
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Complacency is often a serious problem; it is like being dead to the sorrows all around us and it can lead to feeling overwhelmed; the posture of zazen helps us with complacency; when we line up our head with our bellly on a stable base we attend to our life; to the sorrows that come our way.
Keep going.
The framing of these questions makes me think of christ in the garden of gethsemanee. Each starts with the Buddha, present with himself and turns towards each of us, asleep in the watch of the night.
If I could stay present with myself what would I know? Are past lives different from the karmic patterns of that erupt for me as unpredictable emotions or defensive anger at my siblings? they seem the same, but more distant, covered over by actions and by forgetting. They take me to -- "All dharmas are dreams" -- ripples out of the past to be observed, witnessed for their beauty, enquired into so that they can teach us as they pass through us leaving us undisturbed.
But I feel like I could sit with these questions longer and learn from them.
if I could stay present...what would I know? enlightenment? the clear sky?
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