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“Who are you to talk to me like this?” Bodhidharma instantly responded, “Your Highness, I do not know.” Bodhidharma’s reply, “I do not know,” is the still integrity of core-Self flashing as vast Oneness beyond the traps and cages of
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“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” Albert Einstein”
― Boundless Intimacy: The Eye And Treasury Of Core-Self
― Boundless Intimacy: The Eye And Treasury Of Core-Self
“To faithfully heed the Way of noninterference is not the embodiment of detachment, aloofness, or noninvolvement. Noninterference is not turning our life force away from beings, things, and events, but rather respectfully, earnestly, and honorably engaging in their blooming and their completion. Our Way of noninterference is not distancing ourselves from our feelings and emotions or being indifferent to the feelings and emotions of others. Noninterference is the Way of blending with the vast Oneness of total reality by anchoring our ego-self identity and all our thinking, speaking, feeling, and behaving in the still discernment of our core-Self.”
― Boundless Intimacy: The Eye And Treasury Of Core-Self
― Boundless Intimacy: The Eye And Treasury Of Core-Self
“The first Zen principal is to abide in the still brilliance of core-Self while silently illuminating the total dynamic functioning of our ego-self, our thinking mind, and all our passing thoughts, feelings, sensations, and behaviors. The second Zen principal is to wholeheartedly care for all beings, things, and events that continuously come forth to advance the boundless intimacy of our core-Self while encouraging our precious accountability to the vast Oneness of total reality. The third Zen principle is to vigorously embody our core-Self while faithfully practicing a beginner’s tender Way of loving and being loved, of peacefully abiding in vast impermanence, of sincerely and transparently being the body of endless gratitude, and of courageously living and dying in shikantaza and zazen-only.”
― Boundless Intimacy: The Eye And Treasury Of Core-Self
― Boundless Intimacy: The Eye And Treasury Of Core-Self
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