David Given Schwarm

Six of Swords

passed through a stormy or difficult time recuperate, and consider the difficulties which have arisen around us. pressure has eased, make new decisions for our future. greater objectivity, clarity and new perspectives healthy balance between the emotions and the intellect, a family sits in a small boat, which is being poled across a river by…

37. A Buffalo Passes Through the Enclosure

Goso said: “When a buffalo goes out of his enclosure to the edge of the abyss, his horns and his head and his hoofs all pass through, but why can’t the tail also pass?” Mumon’s comment: If anyone can open one eye at this point and say a word of Zen, he is qualified to repay…

Red Book 4

The supreme meaning is not a meaning and not an absurdity, it is image and force in one, magnificence and force together.

[SPEX6]

Sixth Annotation. The sixth: When he who is sees that no spiritual movements, such as consolations or desolations, come to the soul of him who is exercising himself, and that he is not moved by different spirits, he ought to inquire carefully of him about the Exercises, whether he does them at their appointed times, and…