Entering Buddha Mind - Dharma talk

 

Let’s look at a quotation from Confucius’ grandson, in which he explains ‘the Tao’, which is literally the way, but which throughout the history of Taoism and Zen has acquired other names at different times in history. Eventually “the Tao” also came to imply “Big Mind,” “Original Mind,” “Ordinary Mind,” “God,” and “Buddha Nature.” But the basic experience underlying all these is the same.  

“The Tao is the way things are, which you can’t depart from even for one instant. If you could departfrom it, it wouldn’t be the Tao. Therefore, the Master looks into her own heart and respects what is unseen and unheard. Nothing is more manifest than the hidden. Nothing is more obvious than the unseen. Therefore, the Master pays attention to what is happening within her innermost self.” 

Dharma talk by Joseph O’Neill on May 15, 2010 at Sonoma Mountain Zen Center