Beyond Pleasure and Pain

Good evening!

 

Zazen is stopping all karmas, beyond

birth and death, pleasure and pain,

samsara and suffering.

 

Ryokan said,

“Eventless is the noble person

(無事是貴人).”

7/5/11

* 無 means nothingness and 無事 (buji) usually means ”safety, peace,” originally meaning “no event” or “no mishaps.” It may also suggest “no-thing” from Zen 無 (mu/wu, Buddhist “nothingness or emptiness: šûñatâ: 空”).

 

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