Photograph by Itkupilli Thursday Challange: Transparent
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.
Bodhidharma (c. 440 AD - 528 AD)
Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, p. 55
4 comments:
There's much to see in this piece. I'm meditating, shutting off my mind, seeking that edge where it all meets. Or packing the opium pipe yet again!
LOL Mick!
You really see everything, I bet you can see also invisible things...your eye goes always over the material towards the spiritual. ;))
I'll never understand .. not that I care to anymore ... and you seems to have understood, I can always reflect on that
Tim,
He who claims to understand don't understand at all, everytime we modesty admit that, there is possibility to understand. :))
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