..and sings to me when my memory fails. LO24075

From: ACampnona@AOL.COM
Date: 02/26/00


For K.S.

Dear Learners,

I used my lunch time writing the recent contribution in reply to Jan and
maybe a few others who have had thoughts that just streamed on in
darkness, no matter.

I have guests arriving later this evening and I want to end my day writing
something down that I just discovered and that I think might go some
little way to put a light into a darkness. They are anyway paradoxically
just the same.

The Fifth Ancestor Daimin Konin wanted to find his successor. He asked the
monks to write a poem to express their understanding. Jinshu, the head
monk, wrote the following poem on the wall in the middle of the night:

"Our body is the bodhi tree,
our mind a mirror bright.
Carefully wipe then hour by hour,
and let no dust alight."

When Eno saw this next day, he said to the monk standing next to him, "I
too have a poem. Since I am illiterate, would you write it down for me?"

"There is no bodhi tree,
nor stand of a mirror bright.
Since all is void,
where can the dust alight?"

When Konin saw this, he knew the author had the understanding he was
looking for, and he recognized Eno as his dharma heir and hence the Sixth
Ancestor.

Student asks, Does interdependence mean the bird is the whole world, and
independence mean the bird is just a bird?
Master responds, Yes. In the Heart Sutra we say 'form is emptiness',
'emptiness is form'. Form is emptiness --'ego'. And Emptiness is form --
'fuego'. [knocks on table] this is 'fuego'. You cannot say anything, you
know. It is difficult to say what it is. [Knocks on the table again]

All things come and go.

My granny lost her memory quickly, skip and hope Andrew.

Someone knocks at the door, they come and I must go. See?

Love and joy,

Andrew Campbell

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ACampnona@AOL.COM

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