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ZEN BUDDHISM
When you do not care whether you are wet or dry, there is no problem in finding yourself on a rainy day without an umbrella. And when you no longer care whether or not the local bicycle club or the British Empire dissolves by reason of your absence from its deliberations, there remains no problem in the only place in which it ever existed, your own mind. If you attend, you attend; if you don't, you don't, but why worry about it?
Lift, lift your mind, your portion of All-Mind, as high as you can. A spark of the Universal Mind will sooner or later flash between the terminals of each and every problem, and burn them out of existence. Therefore see to it that the self is, if not dead, at least no longer rampant, for the more there is to be burnt the more painful the burning, and the higher forces of the Unconscious are not to be ignored.
Leave all problems unsolved, says Mr. Gabb, and supply the answer. Address the situation from the highest within you and apply the response. Leave the intellect to fight its own fights in the boxing ring, even though it spends as much energy in hitting the air as it does in hitting its opponent. As for you, stop thinking. All problems are thought into existence; drop them. "A single thought and you separate yourself from reality. All empirical thought is vain, for you cannot use the mind to seek something from mind." And this means all thought. "Let the difference be even the tenth of an inch, and heaven and earth are set apart," said a Zen Master. One single concept and the world of nondiscrimination, of satori, is hurled to earth.
Just accept the problem and its possible implications; 1 The Huang Po Doctrine, p. 29.
