Saturday, January 28, 2006
Enlightenment is still chopping wood and carrying water
'Before Enlightenment - chopping wood, carrying water
After Enlightenment - chopping wood, carrying water
When I first heard this saying from Zen Masters, I suddenly realised the full meaning of being 'awake'.
In a 'sleepy' deluded, ego wrapped way of thinking, we go about daily tasks, we do things, and quite often we are not even aware of them or their real significance. We are not fully aware of the reality that exists.
When we become more awake, even fully awake, to things around us in the moment of here and now, we see the same things and do the same things, but with a totally new and fresh and complete perspective. An Enlightened attitude?
'Hill outside - snow has come
Birds eating from the table
Pretty - always was? '