The "unanswered questions" of Buddhism

a reply to: Itisnowagain

What wants to be found.

a reply to: Out6of9Balance
There's nothing to find...... and no one to find nothing.

This is it..... nowhere to go.

No path to this that is.

Call off the search

a reply to: Itisnowagain

Incorrect, sometimes my toothbrush wants to be found.

a reply to: Out6of9Balance
A toothbrush had no needs or wants

a reply to: Itisnowagain

True

a reply to: Itisnowagain

A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can't even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn't a Buddha. Don't think about Buddhas.
-Bodhidarma

a reply to: Never Despise
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

a reply to: Itisnowagain

That's so wrong in so many ways.

a reply to: Out6of9Balance
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The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Quotes by Bodhidharma
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Here is another one:

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

a reply to: Itisnowagain

Pure horror

I think you need some good music now again.

Enjoy.

youtu.be...

There is no try, only to be or not be, then you end up to question.
All the while the secret to life is Breathing.

a reply to: Specimen88

You can try not to be.

He who seeks shall not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Franz Kafka.

Seek and destroy.

a reply to: Out6of9Balance

Seek and deploy?

a reply to: Itisnowagain

Bodhidharma's disciple begged to be given the teaching but Bodhidharma did not believe he was a serious enough student...to prove his dedication, the student hacked off his own arm and gave it to Bodhidharma, who then accepted him.

You don't see that kind of dedication much these days...and maybe that's not a bad thing.

a reply to: Never Despise
Luckily the message, which is not a teaching, is readily available on YouTube these days......but no one wants it.

a reply to: Never Despise
I am just reading through this:
Breaking the Silence - The Teachings of Bodhidharma - Way of Bodhi
www.wayofbodhi.org...

Here is a quick quote form it....
Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

a reply to: Itisnowagain
Looks great, thanks!

I like Bodhidharma's way very much, from what I know of it.

It's interesting; he advocated something he called "wall gazing." The conventional school of Soto Zen takes this literally, and monks meditate staring at a wall.

Another view, however, is that he was really talking about making your gaze itself "wall-like;" that is, not quiet meditation but learning to turn your vision into a kind of mental wall that confronts all aspects of reality equally, as if gazing in a mirror, maybe. Don't know if this reading is valid but it interests me.