A master and his student were sitting about to eat their dinner. The student says to the master "How come we never discuss our practice? The master asks him "What would you like to know?" The student requests to know deeper about the practice to which the master replies "The wind is starting to blow, we should eat." Frustrated the student asks the master to pass him a knife. The master holds out the knife with the blade facing the student. The student then requests "Can you pass it to me with the handle end in my direction?" The master replies, "Do you plan to use the knife differently if I do that?"
I think perhaps the greatest learning comes by discussing practice out of everyday conversation. When discussing practice it may be better to have a normal conversation. What a cycle!
4 comments:
There's no separation between practice and non practice. We're doing all the time, even if we forget or don't know it at all, we're doing it.
Awareness is the key to the practice, and once we reach that point, even discussion about the practice itself becomes redundant.
Trying to deliver a "message" is a separation of master and message.
There is no message.
What the master knows is inseparable from who he is.
The master is the message.
If what he knows is not manifested in who he is, then he is not the master.
I was about to post a comment when I realize the two previous comments have represented my opinion so... I'm with both of them :)
Perhaps I should have thought out my post a bit more. I was trying to show the lack of seperation and yet invite the reader into a deeper thought.
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