{"id":2450,"date":"2020-02-12T13:41:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zatma.org\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2020-02-12T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:41:47","slug":"not-giving-a-rats-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zatma.org\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"Not Giving a Rat’s Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credit: Fa Ming Shakya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Honor of My Teacher.<\/h1>\n

OM NAMO GURU DEV NAMO<\/h1>\n

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I remember the bowing, lighting candles, unfolding the zagu\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A distant form – empty. Done. Completed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes taken as salvation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes giving curses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Said to be, “Nonsense!”<\/p>\n

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Eventually the bowing mat disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n

It gave shimmering promises.<\/span><\/p>\n

Too far away. Too close up.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thread never known.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Everything comes and goes. The bitter and the sweet.<\/span><\/p>\n

All being. All this. All that.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When we make it out to the current, we stop struggling and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sail along watching all of it appear and disappear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Right now it is best not to speak. Not to talk. Not to go up and down along words.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing to say. IT is beyond compare.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Doing things right or wrong is an endless trap – a hamster running on the inside rim of a wheel.<\/span><\/p>\n

IT is immeasurable. Uncountable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Only the Bigness of the Unsayable satisfies the bottomless hunger.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it can\u2019t be made or taken apart.<\/span><\/p>\n

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All else are waves on the surface of the eternal ocean of bliss.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inner desires are the waves.<\/span><\/p>\n

For or against – wanting satisfaction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting it or not. Troubled waters come.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The smallest desire blocks the Way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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No giver. No receiver. No gift.<\/span><\/p>\n

OM namo guru dev namo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA. … PARASAMGATE\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Humming<\/h4>\n

*I was once dubious about working with a teacher, but after a lifetime of practice, and working with Ming Zhen<\/p>\n

I see the need and recommend you find a teacher you can work with face to face.<\/p>\n

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Author: FaShi Lao Yue<\/p>\n

Image credits: Fly, 2020<\/p>\n

ZATMA is not a blog.<\/p>\n

\u00a0If for some reason you need elucidation on the teaching,<\/p>\n

please contact editor at:\u00a0yao.xiang.editor@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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