Onibaba Zen: Bindu

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Bindu

In this particular "practice" you give light back to the sky, darkness to empty space, body to the four elements, thoughts to books, &c. You consciously give everything you've borrowed back to its particular source, and then you rest nakedly in the no-thing left over. I can vouch that this particular shamanic/Taoist/Bonpo practice leaves one in a state of great openness, calm and bliss. With everything borrowed returned to its original place, the naked source of the mysterious "I Am" sense shines all by itself.

Give light back to the sky.
Give darkness back to empty space and shadows.
Give hate and suffering from hate back to the Hell demons.
Give pride, love and joy back to the gods in Heaven.
Give body back to the four great elements.
Give speech back to writing.
Give everything you borrowed back to its source.
What's left? That's the real "I Am."
The great bindu with no size or location --
original, mysterious, before all thoughts.
The source and root of baseless self-cognizing (Mind)!

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"Put Strength Into It, Abandon Conceit"

This page is a direct, yet still veiled, transmission of the Way. Zen is just the "ordinary" and straightfoward mind of no-thought, not the calculating mind that refuses to put forth effort, shies from heartbreak, and resists all transformation.

If you've landed on this page and you are reading this note, you are probably interested in Zen's moon-clear Realization (Kensho, Wu/Satori -- maybe if you're lucky even Daigo).

How can I help you? Maybe I can't! That won't stop me from doing my best. How can I help it? There is nothing willful about the instantaneousness of the moon shining everywhere, getting reflected everywhere. Cup water in your hands and there it is! Wonderful. "Intoxicated by moonlight." "A hammer striking the Void -- before and after, the mysterious sounds going everywhere."

What do you want Zen Realization for anyway? Don't you know that Master Yunmen compared the Buddha to a "dried shit stick?" In any case, it's so simple nobody will ever recognize that you "have" it, and they won't be able to envy you any more than you envy a dusty tramp sitting by the road eating a raw turnip.

Still, there are some who want to penetrate right through to the Mind-Essence. Maybe you've already had a small glimpse of your essential nature, like the moon gliding out briefly from behind clustering dark clouds. That would be extremely helpful.

"Satori" in the Japanese kanji breaks down into the radicals "I" and "Mind." It is the direct experience of the true mind. You ask, How will I know when I've had it? I answer: You'll know. Is the hair standing up on the back of your neck yet?

The "Mind-to-Mind" transmission of Zen is always eccentric, idiosyncratic. It can even be hazardous to your social relationships by making you seem crazy. Do you still want the Mind-Seal?

For more Great Zen see: DSZ.

"Being is what is visible, and Non-Being is the vessel. That which manifests Being is Non-Being. A crystal, for example, is clear and transparent in essence, and though its essential voidness has nothing to do with either colors or patterns it can give birth to both fire and water. How is it that both fire and water, which have different natures, can be produced from a colorless, empty essence?" -Yugaku shudo fukensho, Zeami.