Master: Wake up!
Student: I’m tired
Master: You have yet to live a single day, how can you be tired?
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One day while walking along the green bank of the lake I asked my Master, why is it so hard to be enlightened?
He only smiled.
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One day during morning meal the Master watched us with eyes half closed. He didn’t touch his food.
“Why aren’t you eating Master?” asked a sister.
“I was experiencing deep gratitude for this new day, and for this delicious food,” he said.
The rest of us slowed our eating and bowed to him in thanks for the lesson.
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“There are 4 pillars of Being Meditation,” the Master said.
“One is the awareness of Being itself, that is space/time, the fabric of Being.
Two, is the ten thousand things, but especially living and sentient beings.
Three, is consciousness.
Four, is transience, the folding and unfolding of Being. These are the key to true meditation practice.”
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Once when walking through a nearby town we observed a man kicking a dog. Someone asked the Master, “Why does he kick the dog?”
“There are many reasons why men harm others. Ultimately it is because he has forgotten the miraculous nature of existence. If he had remembered, he never would have harmed that other being.”
Sky in Your Eyes 