The OTHER secret of life...
"The secret of Zen is just two words: not always so." Suzuki Roshi
posted by Anonymous @ 7:09 AM
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I have been pondering this quote and am coming up blank. Can you share your thoughts on this.
When I read this it made me think of one of the things I learned from the last book I read.
One of the major themes in 'How Yoga Works' is that things are not always as they seem. The main character has a bamboo stick for his pen. His teacher takes the stick and feeds it to a cow. To him, it was a pen but the stick is not always what it seems to be because to another, it is lunch. You could also say that the view of the stick being a pen is 'not always so'.
My biggest reminder of 'not always so' is when I am driving and someone cuts me off or does something else that is really rude - I wonder if they are trying to be rude or is it 'not always so' and perhaps they just didn't see me or just made a mistake.
But I also agree with Becky P on the two words/three words thing. I did a double-take and laughed.
Okay I see now. I also am reading How yoga works so I can relate to the pen thing. Thanks!
what beautiful insight. now these are the dicussions we need to keep having. I agree, all of your thoughts make perfect sense. I have read many zen parables that used the word maybe. you could use "not always so" in place of. you don't always know the true intention of actions that occur in this world. and they don't always go as you want or plan. but they do have a purpose in the larger picure. two words sure can bring forth much thought. 50 percent more?impermanence.
Om Namah Shivaya,
Mike
Life isn't as it always appears.
There are two words within.
We are in the body (this container or vessel) to make the invisible visible!
empty still
impermanence
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