Sunday, August 26, 2012

Crazy Clouds: Meditation as tool

The Reading:

[Bodhidharma's]  successors in China, Korea, Japan, and the West still use the same tool of meditation used by the Buddha under the bodhi tree to reveal the living fact of shunyata, or emptiness.

Introduction, p.2, Crazy Clouds

Discussion:

     We seem to live in a time of where deification of meditation is all the rage.  As I've said before, Buddha wasted his time under the bodhi tree, except for the last bit.  Then he stopped sitting there and went about his business.  
     Meditation is a tool, yes.  It does not reveal anything though.  What is there is still there.  What is not is still not.  Is there any emptiness?  I've looked, I cannot find it.


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