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The Great Way isn’t difficult
– nor is it easy
aspiring to walk it
one hobbles oneself
better to sit down now,
rest your tired feet
and with a sweet sigh soak up
The Great View
~
The Great Way by Sengstan (Third Zen Patriarch)
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The Great Way isn’t difficult
– nor is it easy
aspiring to walk it
one hobbles oneself
better to sit down now,
rest your tired feet
and with a sweet sigh soak up
The Great View
~
The Great Way by Sengstan (Third Zen Patriarch)
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Apparently the Buddha said
The Great Way is not difficult, only avoid choosing.
The difficulty isn’t in the choosing or the not-choosing.
It’s in the notion that a separate *chooser* entity exists.
But choices arise spontaneously and choices are made spontaneously.
Assuming the existence of one-who- chooses,
when such an entity cannot be found,
creates the pits and potholes on the Way.
Believe in a self that can choose,
or a self that cannot choose,
and you’ll find the Way impossibly fraught.
The only way I found to “avoid choosing” was to track down the chooser. At some point on this hunt, I found that the chooser is a clever cartoon character dreamed up by a team of very creative fellow cartoon characters – the merry members of the local Think Tank. When they were seen for what they are, they shuffled back into the cartoon.
The naked light of Awareness that KNEW all this merriment turned out to be incapable of ever making a choice, yet it never fails to get everything exactly right!
~
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“The Great Way
is not difficult:
it is
under your nose
just
avoid choosing!”
…
the pathless path
is right here
it is
beneath your feet
just
find out for yourself
if there’s a ‘chooser’ creature
somewhere
– anywhere
well?
~