Let us imagine a pond. The pond is in a quiet hollow and the water is still. The surrounding trees and the flight of the birds are perfectly reflected on the mirror-like surface. The sixth patriarch of Zen had trouble with the mirror metaphor, but that doesn't mean he didn't understand what was meant.
It seems that he objected to any intellectual moment between subject and object. He was a true student of meditation and in a monastic environment: there was no reason to resort to the intellect.....only the fact of existence will suffice.
There is no mirror. There is only awareness: aware in a fabric of existence...and that existence is aware.
It seems that he objected to any intellectual moment between subject and object. He was a true student of meditation and in a monastic environment: there was no reason to resort to the intellect.....only the fact of existence will suffice.
There is no mirror. There is only awareness: aware in a fabric of existence...and that existence is aware.
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