To model yourself after the way of the Buddhas is to model yourself after yourself. To model yourself after yourself is to forget yourself. To forget yourself is to be authenticated by all things. To be authenticated by all things is to effect the molting of body-mind, both yours and others'. The distinguishing marks of enlightenment dissolve and causes the dissolving distinguishing marks of enlightenment to emerge continuously
At first, when you seek the truth, you have distanced yourself from its domain. Finally, when truth is correctly transmitted to you, you are immediately the primordial person.
There is a lot going on in here ad what I think I like most is the finding in past experience illustrations of what is being said. I suppose not writing for a while has lead me to have experiences so that I can come here today and write about events that correspond with intellectual pursuits. I won't go on and on, but here is one.
I have been studying Wing Chun Chuan recently. One of the exercises that our coach has us go through is a push and pull duel with another student. The students take a stance similar to that of sprinter's stretch and slowly play in and out of one another, looking for places that the other is falling off balance. Then taking advantage of that off balance feeling. After several minutes of the exercise one start not to feel like there is a person, just flowing of energy and one becomes in tune with the push and pull. This may sound kind of flakey, but I cannot think of another way to describe it. It's a rocking, a flowing, not looking for opening but feeling an opening.
I have read Zen and Tao texts for many years now and while I have understood intellectually the points, physically experiencing the points is a whole different way. I have similar experience riding a motorcycle, or swimming and surfing. Tomorrow I will hit the slopes for the first time in two years. I'll let you know how it goes.
