Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

We could say that THIS thinks thoughts

...and that there is no person who thinks thoughts. Or, we could say that thoughts simply appear in THIS. Or, we could say that thoughts have no more existence than anything (any thing) else. Or, we could say that nothing is happening. It's all the same. A silent physical action cuts through all of the verbiage, and is immediately understood by those who have become free of thought. This is why Zen Masters jokingly say, "If you open your mouth (to speak), you've already made a mistake."