Just So» mind http://www.mikaelaldridge.com Meditations on Enlightenment Wed, 16 May 2012 00:10:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Pushing down walls http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/pushing-down-walls/ http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/zen/pushing-down-walls/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:16:20 +0000 mikael http://www.mikaelaldridge.com/?p=610 Last night I dreamed I was standing next to a guide who told me to go through a door and I’d find a wall.  I opened the door and there was indeed a wall.  I pushed it down, it revealed a room with more walls.  I kept pushing more and more walls down. It seemed like the walls would go on forever; I felt so alone.  Then I awoke.

It reminds me of Sekkei Harada’s comment that the mind can never be healed.  An infinite number of walls when we forget that the real wall is the mind itself.

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