The example of the glass filled with soil is NOT enough . Zen Master Seung Sahn used the image of a Clear Sky to example Mind . He Taught, "The Mind is like a clear sky, thoughts are like clouds that appear and disappear . If we attach, [hold on to] these clouds the sky becomes UNCLEAR , but if we simply let them go, the sky again is "Empty", free of clouds, free of thoughts . " This Teaching gets deeper . Zen Master Seung Sahn adds profundity ; "Life is like a cloud that appears, Death is like a cloud that Disappears". I LOVE that and have taken it as MY "Understanding of Life" as "IT" relates to both Birth and Death . "IT" may seem shallow but the Buddha felt it UN-NECESSARY to get to the Source of all Life . The Buddha said: "A dying man does NOT have to know the origin of the medicine that will save his life, he simply must consume it ." 2 words : PERFECT .
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