"Your treasure house is within; it contains all you’ll ever
need."
Kicking it Zen style today here at QOD. This one is straight up, you most likely have heard it said many times and many ways; no I am certainly not referring to the popular Christian holiday based on pagan rituals (right? Saturnalia and such?) that celebrates a fat, jolly man that breaks into people's homes and steals cookies and milk in exchange for gifts for young children. Anywho, I am simply talking about loving one's self. It is truly the only object you are given in this world; the singular physical body that one is privileged to know and feel throughout the time we are allowed on this planet. And the heart that operates inside you, which drives the machine that is you and unites physical stimuli with your emotional depths and amalgamates all that surrounds you into consciousness, really is all one ever needs. That is your treasure house. Everything else that we label is a side effect. Embrace yourself from the inside, and love your life.
Baizhang Huai-hai (720-814) was a Chinese Zen teacher. He lived during the Tang Dynasty and amongst his students were significant Zen proponents Huangbo Xiyun, Linji Yixuan, and Puhua. Writer Thomas Cleary has translated Huai-hai's teachings in Sayings and Doings of Pai-Chang. Huai-hai is also credited with the Wild Fox koan.
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