Share this postBe that as it may, bewww.thegateless.orgCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherBe that as it may, be10/20/2021 the hypocrisy of beingCon/Jur/dOct 20, 20213Share this postBe that as it may, bewww.thegateless.orgCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOther1Share“Because of my renewed interest in Zen — having put on the heavy bleak coat and looking for a way out — They said — When you do koan practice it penetrates the world around you — you’ll find it all around your life”“Having read Finnegans Wake I thought I understood — I Tricked I — So it goes”“At the time I preferred to see the dawn from the Otherside — I still do — But with age walking or talking all night happens less frequently — and the drugs are tamer than they were”“Joshu once asked Nansen — What is Tao? Nansen answered — Ordinary Mind is Tao”“Then should we direct ourselves toward it or not? asked Joshu”“If you try to direct your way towards it — you move away from it — replied Nansen — Joshu continued — If we do not try how can we know its Tao?”“Nansen replied — Tao does not apply to knowing or not-knowing — Knowing is Illusion — not-knowing is blankness”“If you really attain to Tao of no-doubt — it is like the great void — so vast and blank — How — then — can there be right and wrong in the Tao?”“At these words…Con/Jur/d, 10/20/2021
Nice Koan, confusing as they always are...