January 22, 2011

This new sense opening up in me, or which I am opening to, recognizing, is indescribable. It is something like a sense of clarity, as in transparency, something like when the color black becomes darkness. Something has tipped. I know in my gut it is truth. I love the way D.T. Suzuki tries to verbalize it: "Generally, we are blind to the fact that we are in possession of all the necessary faculties that will make us happy and loving to one another. All the struggles we see around us come from this ignorance. When the cloud of ignorance disappears...we see for the first time into the nature of our own being. We now know the signification of life, we know that it is not blind striving, nor is it a mere display of brutal forces, but that while we know not definitely what the ultimate purport of life is, there is something in it that makes us feel infinitely blessed in the living of it and remain quite contented with it in all its evolution, without raising questions or entertaining pessimistic doubts."