SydneyJimSep 19

裸身對日、光影皆法。
#Naked before the sun, light & shadow are #BuddhaDharma.

#Naked before the sun, I cast aside all clothing, nothing hides, nothing separates. This bareness is not just of the #body but of all illusions. To stand like this is to meet the world directly, without armour or mask. The warmth of the sun touches without judgement. In this simple act, the great teaching appears: to be open, unguarded, & #free from pretense is itself the gate to #truth. (1/8)

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Light & shadow shift across the earth, across my #body. Neither lasts, each arises only to vanish. #Impermanence itself is the teaching. The bright is not higher than the dark, nor the dark lesser than the bright. Both reveal the same truth, forms come & go, yet their coming & going points to what cannot be grasped. To see this is to understand that nothing is outside the path. (2/8)
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In #HadakaShizenyoku, when I stand unclothed in the open air, the sun may blaze or clouds may dim. Each is #Dharma’s expression. Sunlight shows the clarity of #mind; shadow shows its depth. Both together reveal wholeness. To divide them is to be caught in duality. To embrace both equally is to live the #MiddlePath. This practice teaches without words: #nature itself is a #sūtra, the #body is commentary. (3/8)
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#Nakedness before the sun is not exhibition but equality. No rank, no difference, no concealment, only presence. Light & shadow play across my #body, yet my #body itself is only another flicker of change. To see this is to #awaken to the #truth that nothing is hidden & nothing remains. Sun, shadow, #body, #earth, all are #BuddhaDharma, all are the same endless teaching. (4/8)
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#Nakedness before the sun is a return to origin. When I drop garments, I drop roles, ideas, positions. What remains is simply presence, direct, immediate, unshaped by status. This is equality, beyond gender, beyond measure. The sun shines on all without distinction, showing us that #BuddhaDharma too makes no separation. In this way, unclothed being is the #true mirror of #reality. (5/8)
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Light is not only what brightens; it is what reveals. The sun’s rays expose the textures of bark, the shifting colours of leaf, the pulse of my veins beneath my skin. Shadow, too, reveals, the cool rest under a tree, the outline of form, the mystery of concealment. Both together create the dance of perception. #Truth is not found in one side, but in their ceaseless exchange. (6/8)
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We are tempted to cling to light, imagining it pure, & to fear shadow, imagining it dark. Yet in practice, light can scorch & shadow can soothe. The teaching here is simple: clinging & aversion distort #reality. To live #naked in light & shadow is to meet both without preference, to let them come & let them go. In this, the #mind grows wide like the sky, able to receive everything, attached to nothing. (7/8)
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#HadakaShizenyoku is precisely this training. Entering #nature, bare to the sun & shade, my #body feels warmth & coolness, my skin feels breeze & stillness. Thoughts arise, some grasp, some resist, but when I allow them to pass like clouds, I discover the #truth of openness. Light & shadow do not argue; they simply shift. If we learn from them, our minds too will stop clinging to fixed divisions. (8/8)
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