Just Become A Swinging Door
Conviértete en una puerta batiente- por Shunryu Suzuki
Cuando practicamos [la meditación], nuestra mente siempre sigue nuestra respiración. Cuando inhalamos, el aire entra en nuestro mundo interior. Cuando exhalamos, el aire sale al mundo exterior. El mundo interior es ilimitado y el mundo exterior también es ilimitado. Decimos "mundo interior" o "mundo exterior", pero en realidad solo hay un mundo entero. En este mundo ilimitado, nuestra garganta es como una puerta batiente. El aire entra y sale como quien pasa por una puerta batiente.
Si piensas "respiro", el "yo" es extra. No hay un tú para decir "yo". Lo que llamamos "yo" es solo una puerta batiente que se mueve cuando inhalamos y cuando exhalamos. Simplemente se mueve; eso es todo. Cuando tu mente está lo suficientemente pura y tranquila para seguir este movimiento, no hay nada: no hay "yo", no hay mundo, no hay mente ni cuerpo; solo una puerta batiente.
Entonces, cuando practicamos [la meditación], todo lo que existe es el movimiento de la respiración, pero somos conscientes de este movimiento. No debes distraerse. Pero ser consciente del movimiento no significa ser consciente de tu pequeño yo, sino de tu naturaleza universal ... Este tipo de conciencia es muy importante, porque generalmente tenemos un solo punto de vista.
Nuestra comprensión habitual de la vida es dualista: tú y yo, esto y aquello, lo bueno y lo malo. Pero en realidad estas discriminaciones son en sí mismas la conciencia de la existencia universal. "Tú" significa ser consciente del universo en la forma de ti, y "yo" significa ser consciente de él en la forma de yo. Tú y yo somos simplemente puertas batientes. [...]
En este momento, la puerta batiente se abre en una dirección, y al momento siguiente la puerta batiente se abre en la dirección opuesta.
Momento tras momento cada uno de nosotros repite esta actividad. Aquí no hay idea de tiempo o espacio. El tiempo y el espacio son uno. [...]
Cuando nos convertimos verdaderamente en nosotr@s mism@s, simplemente nos convertimos en una puerta batiente, y somos puramente independientes y, al mismo tiempo, dependientes de todo. Sin aire, no podemos respirar. Cada un@ de nosotr@s está en medio de miles de mundos. Estamos en el centro del mundo siempre, momento tras momento. Entonces somos completamente dependientes e independientes. Si tienes este tipo de experiencia, este tipo de existencia, tienes absoluta independencia; No te sentirás molesto por nada.
Preguntas semilla para la reflexión: ¿Cómo te relacionas con la noción de ser como una puerta batiente? ¿Puedes compartir una historia personal de una época en la que la conciencia de tu respiración te hizo consciente de tu naturaleza universal? ¿Qué te ayuda a ser verdaderamente tú mism@?
Suzuki Roshi fue un maestro de meditación Zen de renombre mundial. Extracto del libro “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.”
Suzuki Roshi was a world-renowned Zen meditation teacher. Excerpt above from the book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the notion of being like a swinging door? Can you share a personal story of a time when awareness of your breath made you aware of your universal nature? What helps you become truly yourself?
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On Jun 22, 2021 Deven Pravin Shah wrote :
So beautifully said - my breathing happens continuously: and every breathe can be a reminder for me to connect with the universal consciousness and detach from my small self or the ego.
Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing this.
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On Jun 22, 2021 Jennifer wrote :
What is out? What is in? It depends where you stand or which direction you face.Or--
you are not in one place but all places. You face not one direction but all. You are both next to the swinging door and infinite miles away.
you are not in one place but all places. You face not one direction but all. You are both next to the swinging door and infinite miles away.
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On Jun 20, 2021 vinod eshwer wrote :
let it come. let it go. let it all pass. be a passage.
as SN Goenka, the reknowned meditation teachersays in his instructions, "be like a gatekeepr, a watchman, aware of every breath coming in, aware of every breath going out. do nothing. just be aware."
as SN Goenka, the reknowned meditation teachersays in his instructions, "be like a gatekeepr, a watchman, aware of every breath coming in, aware of every breath going out. do nothing. just be aware."
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On Jun 20, 2021 David Doane wrote :
A swinging door divides a space into what appears to be two separate spaces. A person swings between a multitude of dialectics in one whole life. The dialectics include individuality-togetherness, living-dying, material-spiritual, awake-asleep, inside-outside, independent-dependent, and on and on. In reflection and meditation, attention to my breathing helps me be aware that inhaling-exhaling is one more dialectic that is really one whole like all other dialectics. I am like a swinging door between what appears to be two but really is one. I belong to both and neither side of every dialectic. I am whole. All creation is whole. What helps me become truly myself is accepting the swinging door that being a human being is, accepting the dialectics of life, being the connection rather than separation of what appears to be two opposites, seeing the wholeness rather than separation, having as much of what appears to be two opposites as I can get, and becoming more integrated and whole.
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On Jun 18, 2021 Jagdish P Dave wrote :
When I am fully engaged in what I am doing I feel oneness within me and without me. The line of separationfades away and I feel oneness between the inner and the outer world. The difference between doing and being, having and being slips away. This happens when my mind is calm, clear, and pure. I feel oneness within and without, between the outer and the inner world. It is a non-dualistic experience.
Six of the members of our family were on a pilgrimage to Amarnath, a five thousandshigh peak on the Himalayas.The sun was setting. The sky was clear. There was deep silence. All of us felt the oneness between the outer world and the inner world. It was an unforgettable experience. In deep meditative state I experience such oneness between the inner world and the outer world. I just become a swinging door as ShunryuSuzuki puts it.
To be true to oneself, to be truly oneself, requires consistent trainingof my mind. When my mind gets divided between the inner world and the outer world, I bec... [View Full Comment]