Can't explain the journey now, but want to get down this link (updated 04/22/2020) and it's ending question and response. I was searching for original material about the perfect mantra song (because it aims rightly).
Anyway, thanks to Emma I had just come from mulling Isaiah's "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee," and so when I read the following paragraph I say, "Yes!" Perfectly aimed! And yet, hmmm, not able to perceive that Fundamental Mind is a Paradox of infinite power and intimate presence, almighty and yet alert to you?
It's right there. This man is right there. If he melted just a little, he might sense the pure love and light of a personal godMind. I think the Christians I am meeting are on to something Big.
Anyway, thanks to Emma I had just come from mulling Isaiah's "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee," and so when I read the following paragraph I say, "Yes!" Perfectly aimed! And yet, hmmm, not able to perceive that Fundamental Mind is a Paradox of infinite power and intimate presence, almighty and yet alert to you?
Question: Could say a little more about the Bodhisattva mind?
Sojun: Bodhisattva mind is the mind which is always turned toward practice, which means it is always fundamentally grounded in emptiness and is expressed through our activity. Bodhisattva mind is the mind which is always giving up self-centeredness in order to see into the truth. So we always keep returning to that mind. It’s like sitting zazen, we have all this activity going on and thoughts are coming up and desires keep arising. So in daily life, when some question comes up, you return your mind to the Fundamental, in order to come to a decision. How does my decision accord with this non self-centered view? If you keep doing that, then you’re continuously practicing. If you’re just getting carried away by your feelings, thoughts and emotions and start to follow all these tracks, it’s easy to get lost. But if you keep coming back to base your decisions on this Fundamental Mind, then you don’t get lost and you know how to practice. You may get lost, but you know how to get back. You always know what to come back to. We’re constantly coming back. That’s zazen: constantly coming back to our undivided Fundamental Mind. That’s Bodhisattva practice and the mantra of our life.
Reprinted from the Berkeley Zen Center Newsletter
It's right there. This man is right there. If he melted just a little, he might sense the pure love and light of a personal godMind. I think the Christians I am meeting are on to something Big.
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