Musangsa 2025년 06월 30일
What am I? If we follow Buddha and make our own investigation, finally we don’t know. Don’t know stops our thinking. There is no thinking; this is empty mind. Empty mind is before-thinking. In before-thinking, there are no opposites. I, you, today, tomorrow, exists, does not exist, being, nonbeing- all appear when thinking appears. When thinking disappears, all disappear.
Great Master Dogen spoke of “time-being.” There is no being without time. There is no time without being. But our original nature is beyond being and nonbeing. Attain that and you are free from being and nonbeing, from time and space. All existence is momentary. Live moment to moment beyond being and nonbeing. This is saving all beings from suffering. You are “moment.” Live this moment for others. This is the Bodhisattva Way.
-Zen Master Dae Bong “Where is Your Master Now”