I can’t believe I found it, and in of all places a hardware store!
Not in a Temple, not in a church, not in any sort of edifice you would think you would find it.
You can only imagine my surprise, after over twenty five years of studying the words, texts, of all those that found it in caves, deserts, monasteries, and even jungles I find it in the hardware store.
There it was located in aisle two, the third shelf from the bottom, there it was, my “original nature”.
The face before my birth was just sitting there empty not filled up with the judgments, beliefs, and erroneous information that would fill it up.
I now realized, looking at it, that all the searching, studying, and seeking only became part of the problem and the reason I never found it while sitting, meditating, and praying.
I now understood what the Taoist Chung Tzu meant when he said “The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing, it refuses nothing. It receives but does not keep.”
And to think I found it in the hardware store, my original nature, me before I was filled, a brand spanking new sponge!
You can only imagine my surprise, after over twenty five years of studying the words, texts, of all those that found it in caves, deserts, monasteries, and even jungles I find it in the hardware store.
There it was located in aisle two, the third shelf from the bottom, there it was, my “original nature”.
The face before my birth was just sitting there empty not filled up with the judgments, beliefs, and erroneous information that would fill it up.
I now realized, looking at it, that all the searching, studying, and seeking only became part of the problem and the reason I never found it while sitting, meditating, and praying.
I now understood what the Taoist Chung Tzu meant when he said “The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing, it refuses nothing. It receives but does not keep.”
And to think I found it in the hardware store, my original nature, me before I was filled, a brand spanking new sponge!
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