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An Eastern Asian monk called Wonhyo (617-686) used a similar word to 'infuse': "how like burning fragrant grasses, emptiness permeates existence and existence perfumes emptiness." He regarded the demarcation between spiritual and ordinary arbitrary. He ledlead a full and dynamic life, writing over 200 hundred volumes of books while still finding time to go to market places to dance and sing in order to teach the masses. One of lessons I learnt from the story of his awakening is how the way we comprehend sacredness or mundane is same, and so malleable.
This occurred during his second attempt to reach China to study with masters. That night, he and Uisang stopped at an old cemetery. He woke up with a thirst so drank some water from a gourd lying around. When he got up next morning, he saw a skull instead of a gourd. Despite feelingFeeling repulsed, he remembered how sweetly the water quenched his thirst during the night. He then decided to turn back and go home. He wrote, "if mind springs, things and phenomenon are born; if mind is blown out, a gourd and a skull are not two [different things]."
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An Eastern Asian monk called Wonhyo (617-686) used a similar word to 'infuse': "how like burning fragrant grasses, emptiness permeates existence and existence perfumes emptiness." He regarded the demarcation between spiritual and ordinary arbitrary. He lead a full and dynamic life, writing over 200 hundred volumes of books while still finding time to go to market places to dance and sing in order to teach the masses. One of lessons I learnt from the story of his awakening is how the way we comprehend sacredness or mundane is same, and so malleable.
This occurred during his second attempt to reach China to study with masters. That night, he and Uisang stopped at an old cemetery. He woke up with a thirst so drank some water from a gourd lying around. When he got up next morning, he saw a skull instead of a gourd. Feeling repulsed, he remembered how sweetly the water quenched his thirst during the night. He then decided to turn back and go home. He wrote, "if mind springs, things and phenomenon are born; if mind is blown out, a gourd and a skull are not two [different things]."
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An Eastern Asian monk called Wonhyo (617-686) used a similar word to 'infuse': "how like burning fragrant grasses, emptiness permeates existence and existence perfumes emptiness." He regarded the demarcation between spiritual and ordinary arbitrary. He led a full and dynamic life, writing over 200 hundred volumes of books while still finding time to go to market places to dance and sing in order to teach the masses. One of lessons I learnt from the story of his awakening is how the way we comprehend sacredness or mundane is same, and so malleable.
This occurred during his second attempt to reach China to study with masters. That night, he and Uisang stopped at an old cemetery. He woke up with a thirst so drank some water from a gourd lying around. When he got up next morning, he saw a skull instead of a gourd. Despite feeling repulsed, he remembered how sweetly the water quenched his thirst during the night. He then decided to turn back and go home. He wrote, "if mind springs, things and phenomenon are born; if mind is blown out, a gourd and a skull are not two [different things]."