Mike,
Yes; to "increase the chances that lightning will strike". I either made this
line up or stole it, I forget.
But maybe "drop the fixation upon a mind", and eventually one may experience
and be left with: "Kai Wu".
My Shih-fu translated this Kai Wu as "to have nothing". It's his word for
Enlightenment, or Awakening. Kai Wu... .
The Wu in Chinese is the same as Chao-chou's "Mu" in Case One of the Mumonkan,
in the context of a dog having the Buddha Nature, or not. I won't say
"regarding" whether it does! Chao-cho really said "Wu", and "Mu" is the
Japanese translation, or equivalent. And in Japan, Chao-chou is Joshu, you
know.
Of course, the dropping is preceded by lots of zazen, and the dropping takes
place as if under Gravity, not by throwing down, I'd say; just as you're
saying, by "grace". It's not an act of will; but, at first, practicing Zazen
is! So, I don't know... there's a chain of causality in there. ;-)
--Joe
> mike brown <uerusuboyo@...> wrote:
>
> Bill!,
>
> >Drop the mind
>
> Is that a command or a suggestion? To be honest, I don't think either are
> possible. That'd be like satori or demand. I see dropping the mind as a kind
> of 'grace' rather than something you can 'do'. Who was it here (I think it
> was Chris) who quoted someone who said something similar? To paraphrase, 'If
> Enlightenment is an accident, then zazen makes us accident-prone'.
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