-- The Strange Answer -- A monk asked, What is the place where the student is empowered? Zen Master Cuiyan said, A thousand days chopping wood, but burning it all in a single day. ----!!!!---- I must admit - this is a deep koan. A thousand days chopping wood, but burning it all in a single day. In the initial phase, a student is asked to meditate. But after a long practice, when the time comes the master asks the student to drop the meditation as well! Then the student doesnt do; he just enjoys his being. This is like a journey. At the beginning of journey you spend a lot of money to book the flight ticket. You spend time and effort to go to airport and then in the journey. But at the end of the journey you have to come out of the plane. But if you are a PhD or a philosopher then you may ask, What is the use? If at the end we have to come out of the plane why should we even take it? And if I take it, I will not come out of the plane! This is the problem with philosophers. They are blind towards life. A friend was talking to me. She said, Why do you meditate? You are already so happy. People get habituated of meditation. Then they start liking to stay alone! People are very strange! They are habituated of facebook, whatsapp, tv, talking and thinking and desiring. People are habituated of remaining restless. They are habituated of remaining occupied. For those they dont say that they have become habituated. But for meditation they say it becomes a habit. To evade from meditation people find out all kinds of sophisticated excuses. No! When the right time will come you will have to give up the meditation as well - you have to burn all the woods in a single day. But initially you have to start from meditation as a process. It is not like the physical exercise which you need to continue for your whole life. Generally when people stop their daily exercise, they start getting obese. Meditation is not like physical exercise. You have to give it up in the end. ITs ALREADY LATE. WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO START YOUR JOURNEY OF MEDITATION???
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 02:00:47 +0000
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