Dharma Talk: Words, No Words by Konrad Ryushin Marchaj Sensei:
"Words, no words" this is not about the flower or the Four Noble Truths. It is always about us and our capacity to awaken. This is about abandoning our postures of knowing what the truth is by our limited way of being in the world, by our defining, our trying to find a place to rest. It is about understanding that there is something utterly unique about that flower, something that surpasses the possibility of a dharma word.
It is about giving up into practice, into the mystery of each detail, as Dogen is encouraging us to do, and coming back, over and over again. It is only in that detail, and in seeing the possibility of studying it, that we come to recognize who we are. And at that moment, we are able to enter the mystery.
This is about coming back hundreds of thousands of times—that is what Mahayakashapa did, that is what Kodanya did. Those are lives of practice. Ripeness is in practice. Practice is insight, taking the breath for the millionth time until we know what it is, until it is completely mysterious and completely transparent—until it is completely each of us. That's when we see the flower.
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