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Full Idea
Feel the consciousness of each person as your own consciousness. So, leaving aside concern for self, become each being.
Gist of Idea
Neglect your self, and feel the consciousness of each other being
Source
Anon (Cent) (Centring [c.500 BCE], 83)
Book Ref
'Zen Flesh, Zen Bones', ed/tr. Reps,Paul [Penguin 1971], p.160
A Reaction
Good. The western scepticism about other minds puts up a barrier to this sort of thought. The best of Zen is when it encourages the use of imagination to explore what is real. But imagination struggles to distinguish what is true.
| 8234 | Bondage and liberation are relative terms, which only frighten those already terrified of the universe [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8227 | Feel your whole body saturated with cosmic essence [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8233 | Imagine fire burning up your whole body, but not you [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8228 | Being is revealed at the point between waking and sleep [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8229 | The serenity in blue sky beyond clouds [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8230 | Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8231 | Abandon attachment to body, and feel the joy of being everywhere [Anon (Cent)] |
| 8232 | Neglect your self, and feel the consciousness of each other being [Anon (Cent)] |