What follows is a stream of consciousness reflection that I wrote (the next day actually) while at work. On this particular day, a Saturday, I had gone into work around 1:00pm to make some extra money. At the time I was a supervisor in a market research call center, but since it was for extra cash I spent the shift on the phones. Doing market research surveys. If you don't know what that means, think telemarketing and you're close enough. This was jotted down between and during calls on the back of an extra timesheet I snagged.
The Way of the Circle (...a reflection)
It is obvious why the circle has such an important presence in the essence of Zen (Buddhism). The circle is undoubtedly the most powerful figure. To travel the circle, is to travel the way. To walk the way of the circle, is to walk firmly in the moment. There is no beginning. There is no end. There are no corners, no deviations. To walk the circle is to be concerned only with the journey itself; this is true walking. With only a fleeting aspiration to attain the emptiness inside.
This is a student in the way of Zen.
This is ignorance, ignorance is delusion,
but without delusion there can be no realization.
Delusion and realization are born to one another.
In this way, complements achieve (circular) non-duality.
This is the way of the student unto teacher.
(...Until he discovers that...)
In the case of the circle, form is emptiness and emptiness is form. This is the true way of things.
All things are no-thing(s).
All no(-)things are things.
All is one.
This is the way of the circle.
Poetry Week - Day 4 - Reflect-Zen
