Bill!, "Think about it" before you begin a practice of some kind, I think Suresh may mean.
Maharshi is saying that all he did was begin to sit with his eyes open, rather than as he did previously, with eyes closed. So he changed to sitting with eyes open, as we do in zazen. And, at some point it's not that he did something intentionally, but something acted, and maybe that was that. He mentions a "higher power", and that could as well have been our original nature, Buddha Nature, or, at that time, just a necessity of the body, while his mind was quiet and he obviously did not resist. See?, some things I can re-word, and other things I'm too lazy to. --Joe > "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote: > > Suresh, > > Yes, this is very 'thought provoking'; but is exactly the opposite of what > you want to practice in zen which is 'thought quiescence'. > > ...Bill! > > --- In [email protected], SURESH JAGADEESAN <varamtha@> wrote: > > > > From Ramana Maharishi - (very thought provoking) > > > > "I have never done any sadhana. I did not even know what > > sadhana was. Only long afterwards I came to know what sadhana > > was and how many different kinds of it there were. Only if there > > was a goal to attain, I should have made sadhana to attain that goal. > > There was nothing which I wanted to obtain. I am now sitting with > > my eyes open. I was then sitting with my eyes closed. That was all > > the difference. I was not doing any sadhana even then. As I sat with > > my eyes closed, people said I was in samadhi. As I was not talking, > > they said I was in mauna. The fact is, I did nothing. Some Higher > > Power took hold of me and I was entirely in Its hand."16 ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
