Repost: Buddha and the Arrow
The Buddha said, “Suppose someone were hit by a poisoned arrow and his friends and relatives found a doctor to remove the arrow. If this man were to say, ‘I will not have this arrow taken out until I know whether the person who shot it was a priest, a prince or a merchant, his name and his family. I will not have it taken out until I know what kind of bow was used and whether the arrowhead was an ordinary one or an iron one,’ then that person would die before all these things were known to him.”
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It is the same way with our everyday suffering. What is it that really matters–the archer, the doctor, the bow, the arrowhead, or getting rid of our pain?
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November 25, 2014 @ 9:57 am
Getting rid of the pain is the sole purpose of the nondual endeavor. And how do we do that? We do that by seeing that there is no one to suffer to begin with.
All love, All joy,
Garydas
November 25, 2014 @ 11:33 am
Bingo.
November 25, 2014 @ 3:30 pm
Smiling
When caught up in the maelstorm of the mind
My – how difficult to perceive there is a No One
Upon falling away of all concepts etc etc etc
Peace Joy and a Freshness to the Space which always Is
Love Blossoms and Grows as if being seen for the first time
As if being in its boundless presence for the first time
Quietly lovingly it settles permeates and its perfume
Is Remembered
Lana
November 25, 2014 @ 3:31 pm
Thank you, Lana!