The Guru does not teach directly; he teaches indirectly, not through familiar avenues of dogmatic lecture and exhausting persuasion but through good old nose-honking.
This captures the spirit of Zen beautifully; direct, visceral, and delightfully unsettling.
The mind reaches for emptiness with ideas, but life answers with experience, a yank on the nose, a sudden shift that bypasses intellect and goes straight to being.
Thank you for sharing this, a perfect reminder that the path is not something we think our way into, but something that often surprises us into awakening.
The Guru does not teach directly; he teaches indirectly, not through familiar avenues of dogmatic lecture and exhausting persuasion but through good old nose-honking.
It's like a physical koan 😂
Reminds me of Alan Watts’ gong ❤️
This captures the spirit of Zen beautifully; direct, visceral, and delightfully unsettling.
The mind reaches for emptiness with ideas, but life answers with experience, a yank on the nose, a sudden shift that bypasses intellect and goes straight to being.
Thank you for sharing this, a perfect reminder that the path is not something we think our way into, but something that often surprises us into awakening.
Stay entangled, my friend.
—The Bathrobe Guy (Baba Ishvara Das)
That’s a classic! I may have worked in the moment for that old fellow .. but what about now?