Welcome to the Note School of Zen, where all have begun at the beginning with Session One because they have all known that the beginning holds the seed of enlightenment that is cultivated as the Zen training in all notes that have followed to date. It is they who even now know that they need to know, which means that Knowing How to Know is everything. So, before you go on to the next note, make up your mind that you are also entering the Note School of the Sufi Way, which is utterly beyond Islam and Buddhism, like the lake in Swat, Pakistan where Padma Sambhava was born in a lotus blossom as a retrospective example of a supramental descending being aimed at by Aurobindo.

Welcome to the Note School of Hassidism where Transcendental Jews of Israel and New York understand the real meaning of the current event of the talking fish, as well as the right interpretation of the movie, PI.

There is an Hassidic teaching that is also a Zen Koan, as well as a Note. See if you can interpret it for real with higher awareness. Here it is:

The Soul’s Teaching

       Rabbi Pinhas often cited the words: “A man’s soul will teach him,” and emphasized them by adding: “There is no man who is not constantly being taught by his soul.”

       One of his disciples asked: “If this is so, why don’t men obey their souls?”

       “The soul teaches constantly,” Rabbi Pinhas explained, “but it never repeats.”

There is a Sufi teaching that is also a Zen Koan, as well as a Note. See if you can interpret it for real with higher awareness. Here it is:

Repetition

A foolish man came to Abdullah Manazil and asked him a question. Manazil answered, and at the end of the discourse, the man said:
        “Please say that again.”
Manazil said:
        “You asked me a question and I was ill-advised enough to expect that you would understand the answer. Now you have asked me to repeat my mistake.

There is a Zen Koan which is also a Sufi teaching, as well as a Note. See if you can interpret it for real with higher awareness. Here it is:

Black and White

       A monk asked Ma Tsu, “Putting aside all forms of logic and argumentation, will you please point directly to the purpose of Bodhidharma coming from the West.”
        Ma Tsu said, “Today I am not in the mood to tell you; go to the guest house and ask Chih Ts’ang and he will tell you.”
        The monk went to the guest house and asked Chih Ts’ang the same question. In reply, Chih Ts’ang pointed at his head, saying, “I have a bad headache today and do not feel up to telling you; you should go ask brother Hai.”
        The monk went to Huai Hai who said, “Now that you have come to this, I really do not understand.”
        The monk then returned to report all this to Ma Tsu who said, “Ts’ang’s head is white, Hai’s head is black.”

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