If you want to know what Zen is, this picture (that I took tonight during a walk with Charlotte) about sums it up as well as anything I've ever seen or read.
大道無門 The Great Way is gateless,
千差有路 Approached in a thousand ways.
透得此關 Once past this checkpoint
乾坤獨歩 You stride through the universe.
The "gateless gate" is in a yard on the shores of Evergreen Lake in Evergreen, Colorado in case you'd like to find it.
Namaste!
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1 comment:
Great photograph. My boss came to work today with a Starbucks coffee cup that had a little musing about zen printed on it. The idea being that zen is thought of as detachment from the world, introspective and those who are in a zen mindset distance themselves from others. For me zen is freedom, no barriers, like no fences attached to the "gateless gate".
Namaste, Ann
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