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ISAN: NO FOOTPRINTS IN THE BLUE SKY

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  • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 1: Dig deep
    Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 1: Dig deep, ONE NIGHT ISAN WAS IN ATTENDANCE ON HYAKUJO, SITTING TILL LATE IN THE QUIETNESS OF THE MOUNTAIN TEMPLE. 'WHO ARE YOU?' HYAKUJO ASKED. 'REIYU,' REPLIED ISAN. 'RAKE IN THE FIREPLACE,' INSTRUCTED HYAKUJO. ISAN DID AS HE WAS TOLD AND SAID, 'I FIND NO EMBERS LEFT.' HYAKUJO TOOK UP THE TONGS AND, RAKING DEEP DOWN, BROUGHT UP A TINY BURNING EMBER, WHICH HE SHOWED TO ISAN, AND SAID, 'JUST THIS, YOU SEE!' at energyenhancement.org

  • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 1: Dig deep, Question 1
    Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 1: Dig deep, Question 1, I HAVE HEARD YOU SAY THAT THE ENLIGHTENED ONES, LIKE BIRDS, LEAVE NO FOOTPRINTS BEHIND THEM. YET PEOPLE LIKE ISAN TOUCH OUR CONSCIOUSNESS HUNDREDS OF YEARS AFTER THEY HAVE DIED at energyenhancement.org

  • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 3: Start witnessing
    Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 3: Start witnessing, ON ONE OCCASION, A MONK CAME TO ISAN'S MONASTERY TO BE TAUGHT, AND, SEEING HIM, ISAN MADE AS IF TO GET UP. 'PLEASE DON'T STAND UP!' EXCLAIMED THE MONK. 'I HAVEN'T SAT DOWN YET!' SAID ISAN. 'I HAVEN'T BOWED YET,' THE MONK SAID. 'YOU RUDE CREATURE!' COMMENTED ISAN at energyenhancement.org

  • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 3: Start witnessing, Question 1
    Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 3: Start witnessing, Question 1, LAST NIGHT I SAW FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THE MIND NEED NOT BE INIMICAL TO MEDITATION. DOES WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THE MIND ACCEPTING ENLIGHTENMENT ALSO APPLY TO ITS ACCEPTANCE BEFORE ENLIGHTENMENT, OF, FOR EXAMPLE, WITNESSING? CAN THE MIND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WITNESSING IS OFTEN MORE USEFUL THAN THINKING, AND SO JUST STEP ASIDE IN THOSE MOMENTS WITHOUT THROWING A TANTRUM? at energyenhancement.org

    • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 4: How about you?
      Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 4: How about you?, ONCE, TO KYOZAN, ISAN COMMENTED: 'ALL THE BUDDHAS IN THE SAMADHI ENTER INTO A SPECK OF DUST AND TURN THE GREAT WHEEL OF THE LAW.' KYOZAN SAID TO HIM, 'HOW ABOUT YOU?' ISAN RESPONDED, 'THERE IS SOMEONE; MAKING HIM AN EXAMPLE, WE CAN GET IT FROM HIM.' KYOZAN POINTED TO A WATER-BOTTLE AND SAID, 'PLEASE GET IN IT.' ISAN'S RESPONSE WAS: 'ALL THE BUDDHAS BY THEIR OCCULT POWERS ARE AT PRESENT IN THE MOUTH OF THE BOTTLE, TURNING THE GREAT WHEEL OF THE LAW. CAN YOU SEE THEM DOING IT?' KYOZAN THEN SAID, 'THIS IS THE TURNING OF ALL THE BUDDHAS. HOW WILL YOU TURN IT?' ISAN OBSERVED, 'IT CANNOT BE DONE IF WE ARE SEPARATED FROM THE THING ITSELF' -- AT WHICH KYOZAN MADE HIS BOWS at energyenhancement.org

    • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 4: How about you?, Question 1
      Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 4: How about you?, Question 1, THESE DAYS WHEN YOU SAY THE WORD `WITNESS', IT HAS THE SAME IMPACT THAT THE WORDS `LOVE' OR `RELATIONSHIP' ONCE HAD. I LISTEN AS IF IT IS ACTUALLY FOOD TO NOURISH SOMETHING VITAL INSIDE. IS THAT THE ART OF THE MASTER -- TO AROUSE APPETITES ONE NEVER KNEW ONE HAD? at energyenhancement.org

  • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 5: Just be here
    Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 5: Just be here, ISAN SAID TO KYOZAN, 'I HAVE HEARD THAT WHEN YOU WERE WITH HYAKUJO, IF YOU WERE ASKED ABOUT ONE, YOU COULD ANSWER ABOUT TEN. IS THAT TRUE?' 'I WOULDN'T LIKE TO SAY,' REPLIED KYOZAN. 'ATTEMPT TO SAY SOMETHING THAT EXPRESSES THE HIGHEST POINT OF BUDDHISM,' SAID ISAN. KYOZAN JUST OPENED HIS MOUTH, ABOUT TO SPEAK, WHEN ISAN SHOUTED, 'KWATZ!' TWICE MORE, KYOZAN WENT TO SPEAK AND TWICE ISAN SILENCED HIM WITH A SHOUT. KYOZAN BOWED HIS HEAD AND WEPT, SAYING, 'THE FORMER TEACHER SAID THAT WHEN I MET ANOTHER, I WOULD GAIN ENLIGHTENMENT. TODAY I HAVE MET HIM. IT IS THREE YEARS SINCE I BEGAN TO SEEK FOR BUDDHAHOOD, AND IT WAS NO MORE THAN LOOKING AFTER A COW at energyenhancement.org

  • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 5: Just be here, Question 1
    Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 5: Just be here, Question 1, IS OUR IDENTIFYING WITH OUR BODY AND/OR MIND ALL THAT IS PREVENTING US FROM BEING ONE WITH EVERYTHING? at energyenhancement.org

    • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 6: The only hope
      Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 6: The only hope, ISAN SAID TO KYOZAN: 'MOST OF THE PEOPLE UPON THIS GREAT EARTH, WITH THEIR LIMITLESS CONSCIOUSNESS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT, LACK THE AWARENESS OF THAT ORIGINAL NATURE WHICH THEY SHOULD RELY UPON. CAN YOU TELL WHETHER THEY HAVE THIS AWARENESS OR NOT?' KYOZAN REPLIED: 'I HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS DIFFICULTY.' JUST AT THAT MOMENT, A MONK PASSED BY AND KYOZAN CALLED OUT TO HIM, 'JARI!' AND THE MONK TURNED HIS HEAD at energyenhancement.org

    • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 6: The only hope, Question 1
      Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 6: The only hope, Question 1, JUST BEFORE DROPPING OFF TO SLEEP EACH NIGHT I SILENTLY REPEAT THE WORD `WITNESSING' TWENTY TIMES, RECALLING THE SPACE ITSELF AS I DO SO. INEVITABLY, THE FIRST OR SECOND THOUGHT ON WAKING IS THE REMEMBRANCE TO WITNESS. WHAT IS HAPPENING? IS THE MIND BEING HYPNOTIZED TO REMEMBER THE WITNESS? at energyenhancement.org

  • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 7: Blue sky
    Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 7: Blue sky, ON ONE OCCASION, TWO ZEN MONKS CAME FROM A RIVAL COMMUNITY AND, ARRIVING AT ISAN'S MONASTERY, COMMENTED: 'THERE IS NOT A MAN HERE WHO CAN UNDERSTAND ZEN.' LATER, WHEN ALL THE MONKS WERE OUT GATHERING FIREWOOD, KYOZAN SAW THEM BOTH RESTING. HE PICKED UP A PIECE OF FIREWOOD AND SAID TO THE TWO: 'CAN YOU TALK ABOUT IT?' BOTH WERE SPEECHLESS, AT WHICH KYOZAN COMMENTED: 'DO NOT SAY THAT THERE IS NO ONE HERE WHO CAN UNDERSTAND ZEN. ' WHEN KYOZAN GOT BACK TO THE MONASTERY, HE SAID TO ISAN, 'TODAY, I EXPOSED TWO ZEN MONKS.' 'HOW?' ISAN ASKED, AND KYOZAN TOLD HIM OF THE EXCHANGE. ISAN COMMENTED: 'I HAVE NOW EXPOSED YOU AS WELL' at energyenhancement.org

  • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 7: Blue sky, Question 1
    Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 7: Blue sky, Question 1, DOES THE TIME THAT YOU ARE AWAY FROM US HAVE A SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS OWN IN YOUR WORK WITH US? at energyenhancement.org

  • Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 7: Blue sky, Question 2
    Talks on Zen, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky Chapter 7: Blue sky, Question 2, THE STORY OF BUDDHA MECHANICALLY BRUSHING AWAY THE FLY IS PUZZLING. WAS IT STILL POSSIBLE FOR HIM TO DO SOMETHING WITHOUT BEING CONSCIOUS, SOMETIMES MECHANICAL? I THOUGHT ONCE ONE WAS ENLIGHTENED, ONE COULD NOT HELP BUT BE CONSCIOUS IN ALL THAT ONE DID, TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY at energyenhancement.org

 

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