Master Rock-Frost said: “On top of the dharma-talk flagpole, a thousand feet up, how do you step out beyond?”
And an old master of mirror-sight clarity said:
If you sit deep in meditation atop the dharma-talk flagpole, you’ve begun. But it’s not clarity absolute. A thousand feet
up that flagpole, at the top, step out beyond—then you’ll see in the ten distances of time and space, your very self entire.
NO-GATE’S COMMENT
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Step out beyond perfectly, self soaring perfectly out beyond, and you’ll wonder if there’s anywhere that isn’t all praise and honor. So, right now: speak up! Tell me! On top of the dharma-talk flagpole, a thousand feet up, how do you step out beyond? Huh?!
GATHA
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Buddha-gate eye gone dark, you confuse a thing’s
weight with marks on the scales measuring it out.
Venture self to give life away: fine, but that’s still
just a blind monk guiding a band of blind monks.