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Every day is a good day
Unmon said: “I do not ask you about fifteen days ago. But what about fifteen days hence? Come, say a
word about this!” Since none of the monks answered, he answered for them: “Every day is a good day.”
“Every day is a good day” is a simple statement, but very few know its real meaning. The “good day” does
not refer to a nice day as compared to a bad day. It means the absolute, not the relative, day. Today is the
absolute day, the only day in the eternity of time. Today is never repeated. Every day is fresh and new just
as one’s life is new each day. Every day is a good day, but the good is not of one’s own making. It is good
in the original, or absolute, sense—rain or shine, war or peace, sickness or health. The past is only
reference; the future is only hope. Today is real.
Editor’s Note: This is from Rev. Gyomay Kubose’s book "Zen Koans."
Reprinted by permission of the author.
http://www.heartlandsangha.org/good_day.html
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"Today is the absolute day, the only day in the eternity of time".
Thank you for the reminder MS, which brings renewed intensity to this very moment as I read it.
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“Every day is a good day.”
Try saying this to a child dying of cancer, undergoing chimiotheraphy,
or to a kid living in a shanty town, making a living looking for scraps of plastic, barefoot in fields of trash.
No, everyday is not a good day....
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That message above, THEY are not reading BT, but you are, and I am.
I read this in Illusions by Richard Bach.
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly".
I am grappling with this subject ( http://sorcery.yuku.com/topic/2826)
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As Master Unmon said himself,
“I won’t ask you about up to the fifteenth of the month, but what about after the fifteenth of the month?”
Those great hell breaking words of the Buddha, Unmon said it like this. So how about it? This training period up until today, have you made the efforts? I won’t ask about that but on this day of deep reckoning, how about it? From today onward, in what state of mind will you lead your life? Each and every person must look
at this sharply! Master Unmon glared at the assembly and asked this fiercely ,but no one could answer. It is not that they could not answer but no one could match that state of mind of Master Unmon, they probably said this or that, but no one could get anywhere near that state of mind of Master Unmon. Not a single one could reach that quality of state of mind. And so Unmon said to his transmitted to disciple Kyorin who later received Unmon’s Dharma, he pleaded, “please answer for us since we cannot answer” and Master Unmon replied,”
Every day is a good day!”
“Each day and every day, each day, all of it, this is a fine day” this is is how most will interpret these words but this is nowhere near the state of mind of Master Unmon, who would also be in that state of mind when there are crises, earthquakes, deep resentment great unexpected hatred and within that we cannot so mildly just say, “today it is a little difficult for me”. But if we try stay in that world of what we like and don’t like, that is not zen. Up until today we don’t bother with that, but from today, what state of mind will you do your training with? No one could answer this or even get anywhere near it.
Master Unmon said, “Every day is a good day”, but this is not about an interpretation. Can anyone realize this directly? Most probably no one can possibly realize this, to say every day is to not be moved around by anything that comes down. We have to instead drink it down and not just that, but to believe with absolute deepest faith, and vow deeply. Without that deep vow then it doesn’t work. In every second that deep vow and belief has to be there or it is like going into war without a weapon, like being in a world full of mozo and blind meaningless activity without faith and deep vow. We will be pushed and tromped by peoples delusions and Master Unmon was saying clearly that no matter what we may come by we will not be moved around. Nothing will prevent us from realizing our vow. No matter what conceptual idea we may hold our true meaning is not about that, the true meaning of our being born has to be deeply held
or we are not worth living in this world - seeing that clearly we are not moved around in our mind no matter what comes along.
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Blue totem wrote:“Every day is a good day.”
Try saying this to a child dying of cancer, undergoing chimiotheraphy,
or to a kid living in a shanty town, making a living looking for scraps of plastic, barefoot in fields of trash.
No, everyday is not a good day....It's kind of an irony, but cancer ridden children, kids living in shanty town, etc tend to have a great degree of inner strenght due to dealing with this enormously challenging situations. Even so, you have to remember that naguals and zen masters tend to live in a fairy land where everything fine and pain and suffering is an anomaly or non-existent. This very vision makes them believe that whatever suffering others have is due to them and self-inflicted.
Nagual and zen adherents tend to EMULATE this attitude without having the inner realization, something that I personally find pathetic, but it's how things roll on this planet.
Truth of the matter is that a day is a day is a day. An opportunity, a possibility. What we make of it, is up to us.
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And what experience do you have to support your claims Tic?
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Nagual LoneWolf wrote:And what experience do you have to support your claims Tic?Good, bad and ugly experiences. I did had a life before this forum. At any rate, naguals do come in all sizes and shapes. That I've crossed path with selfish asses and morons doesn't mean that they all are like that.
I sure as hell don't consider myself one of those. Neither I consider you one of those. But there are many out there.
As for the experiences to support the claim, I will only say that I left more than one lineage due to such attitudes. In all cases I left the lineage worst than I started. Such was the impeccability of those "masters".
They were more eager to use me to push their agendas than to make me awaken or help me.
Do you think that's alright? Coz I personally think it's 100% bullshit.
And I'll insist: Those who are not even on a lineage and act as if they are nagual beings or buddhas should get real. And some naguals and buddhas for that matter should remember that they are not alone. That there are others that need guidance and help and it's their DUTY to help them.
Extra edit: (**** I'm on a roll ) There are two kinds of self-importance:
One of them is being the average Dull Doe that walks, sleeps, fucks and dies day-dreaming. The other one is being Aware Doe having so many far out experiences that he/she starts looking down on the rest of mankind.
Neither of them is seeing the whole picture, even if Aware Doe is closer.
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Ah I like this answer Tic. Your right theres alot of b***sh*t out there and ones who want to make nagualism this dogmatic practice with all their rules and formed warriors. As far as duty, well that to me comes from the spirit. Hope you will hang out some more and share your experiences here in the forums for I bet you'll see others feel as you do here.
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