Like Lions Learning to Roar
What if you could see the best in everyone?
What if you could see the light in everyone, and not get caught up in passing shortcomings?
What if you could see all the same things in yourself? Wouldn’t this be nice?
Just put down blame, anger, and judgments.
Just let them go and step forward.
Take a brave step holding onto only your bright, inherent nature.
Keep doing this, and a new world will begin to reveal itself.
from the Foreword:
You have to meet the teacher halfway.
You just do.There’s no way around it.
You have to be struggling and working and trying to figure things out for yourself first. Then everything else can happen.
Each one of us has this bright, inherent “Buddha-nature” within us, and through it we are connected to all the universe. But it’s up to us to discover this connection. It’s up to us to live in tune with this inherent treasure. We have to figure out how this plays out in our life.
The first step is simply trusting this non-dual nature. Know that you have it, have faith that it’s connected to everything you’re going through, and entrust everything there. Keep doing this and observing. Let go of your opinions like this. Let go of what’s going well like this. Let go of what’s going badly like this, and the whole time, keep paying attention.
Step forward bravely, holding onto your bright, inherent nature, and a new world will begin to reveal itself.
Praise for Seon Master Daehaeng’s No River to Cross
"No River to Cross speaks directly and simply from the heart, much in the manner of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Master Daehaeng's ability to penetrate the skin with plain and pointed words should give this work the same longevity." —Francisca Cho, Georgetown University, translator of Everything Yearned For
“This first taste of a fresh female voice leaves you hungry for more." —Shambhala Sun
Seon Master Daehaeng was one of the most respected Buddhist teachers in Korea. She famously taught monks as well as nuns, and put a special emphasis on teaching laypeople how they too could practice spiritual cultivation and so awaken from the upside-down dreams that rule much of our lives.