{"id":15781,"date":"2025-08-26T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localweb250724.mycafe24.com\/?p=15781"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:10:38","slug":"the-great-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musangsa.org\/en\/the-great-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15783 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/musangsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musangsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-4.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/musangsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/musangsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-4-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/musangsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/musangsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-4-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/musangsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-4-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This affair is like the bright sun in the blue sky, shining clearly, changeless and motionless, without diminishing or increasing. It shines everywhere in the daily activities of everyone, appearing in everything. Though you try to grasp it, you cannot get it; though you try to abandon it, it always remains. It is vast and unobstructed, utterly empty. Like a gourd floating on water, it cannot be reined in or held down. Since ancient times, when good people of the Path have attained this, they\u2019ve appeared and disappeared in the sea of birth and death, able to use it fully. There is no deficit or surplus: like cutting up sandalwood, each piece is it. *<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*When fragrant sandalwood is cut up, each piece is fragrant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Zen Master Ta Hui<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<div data-post-id=\"15383\" class=\"insert-page insert-page-15383 \"><style type=\"text\/css\" data-type=\"vc_custom-css\">ul.ult_tabmenu.style1.Style_4{\r\n    max-width: 100%;\r\n}<\/style><style type=\"text\/css\" data-type=\"vc_shortcodes-custom-css\">.vc_custom_1634087134379{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}<\/style><div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row tlg_large_container=&#8221;wide-container&#8221; tlg_enable_overlay=&#8221;yes&#8221; tlg_parallax=&#8221;not-parallax&#8221; tlg_vertical_align=&#8221;yes&#8221; 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