September
Master Beiko City Keicho told a monk to go ask teacher Kyozan Ejaku: Can a man who lives in the moment requires the Awakening or not?
Master Kyozan Ejaku said It would be wrong to say there is no enlightenment, but I can not avoid falling into the dual consciousness.
Back to Beiko master, the monk reported that master Kyozan said.
Master Beiko vigorously upheld the words of master Kyozan.
Quote:
Commentary Nishijima Roshi
"Falling into dual consciousness" means entering the state in which our consciousness is divided. In this state, there is an "I" which looks at some koans called the "second person". This is the subject-object mode of being in the world, that is, by its very nature, part and it does not cover the whole of reality. When we act, our consciousness is unified and we cease to perceive the separation between subject and object.
Kyozan Master said that even if he does can deny that there is for him a state of arousal, it is equally true that he sometimes falls into a way of viewing the world divided. This is a very realistic and honest answer. The idealist view is that enlightenment is sudden and complete. Once we'd won the grand prize of spiritual enlightenment, spiritual we become supermen or gods, never troubled by the concerns of the pathetic existence. But Master Kyozan argues that even if sometimes we experience a state of arousal, it also happens that our consciousness is divided.
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