IN COMBUSTION AS A HOLOGRAM

Have you seen the man of Tao in his repose,

in the condition beyond knowledge and action,

who neither suppresses his thoughts

nor seeks after reality?

For him ignorance is like the Buddha,

and the fickle body of illusion is indeed Reality.

(''The Song of Enlightenment'', Yong Gia)

Flights

I am an Illusory god

of something or other

I do not want to face

any longer.

Songs of Innocence & of Experience

Piping down the valleys wild,

Piping songs of pleasant glee,

On a cloud I saw child,

And he laughing said to me:

''Pipe a song about a Lamb:''

So I piped with merry cheer,

''Piper pipe that song again''-

So I piped, he wept to hear.

William Blake

Anutara Samyak Sambodhi (= Supreme Incomparable Enlightenment)

My interpretation of a Zen picture:

''Ego'' is the the Bull.

''Non ego'' is the Man carrying it, like a burden, until salvation!

Satori

''So far the phenomenon called satori in Zen Buddhism has been treated as constituting the essence of Zen, as the turning point in one's life,which opens up the mind to a wider and deeper world.

 People often imagine that the discipline of Zen is to induce a state of self suggestion through meditation. This is not quite right. Satori is rather, a sort of mental catastrophe taking place all at once after so much piling of matters intellectual and demonstrative.The piling has reached its limit and the whole edifice has now come to the ground, when behold a new heaven is opened to your full survey. The older frame is called 'Ignorance' (avidya) and the new one 'Enlightenment' (sambodhi).''

(Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's   ''Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series'')