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100 Chicken Little: The Inside Story Entering the City with Bliss-Bestowing Hands (the last of the “Ten Ox-herding Pictures” of Zen Buddhism) “And now having moved through the stage of emptiness, and also having seen God in the world of nature, the individual can see God in the world of men. Enlightened mingling in the market place with ‘wine-bibbers and butchers’ (publicans and sinners), he recognizes the ‘inner light’ of ‘Buddha-nature’ in everyone. He doesn’t need to hold himself aloof nor to be weighted down by a sense of duty or responsibility, nor to follow a set of patterns of other holy men, nor to imitate the past. He is so in harmony with life that he is content to be inconspicuous, to be an instrument, not a leader. He simply does what seems to him natural. But though in the market place he seems to be an ordinary man, something happens to the people among whom he mingles. They too become part of the harmony of the universe.”—Suzuki, Manual of Zen Buddhism.
New Dimensions 101 I was afraid I’d missed my cue, but the room was still enveloped in, well, a balloon of silence. Adam was gazing at the snow through the French doors. Arnold was picking his teeth; D. and Rachel were examining the stone. I caught a whiff of dog-fart, but I wasn’t about to embarrass Sunny by mentioning it. When Adam turned to face us he spoke with unusual gravity. “To the untrained eye,” he said, “that insignificant piece of rock has no value at all. Yet to me it is alive.” He began to pace. “Early in life I realized that for a proper appreciation of my own nature, and for a social perspective I sadly lacked, it was incumbent upon me to withdraw for a time from the mainstream of life—to take a step back, both symbolically and in fact, from the company of others. I learned thereby that the man who would be different has two battles to fight: one against the opinions of others, and one against himself. “Remember Kierkegaard? ‘To battle against princes and popes is easy compared with struggling against the masses, the tyranny of equality.’ 105 But the struggle within can be equally as devastating. It took my all to counter the forces intent on bending me back into line. And if such pressures were often ‘only’ mental—subtle internal conflicts rather than flesh-and-blood antagonists—so much the worse; they were phantoms far more difficult to cope with. “Never mind, what is done is done and no regrets. What I say to you now is that the shell I became was filled by Ms. Little, who in the guise of a stone embodied and summed up all my struggles. Objectively that was nonsense; subjectively it was so, because I invested it with elements of myself. More—the best of myself, what I wanted to be, might have been, never was or could be. “Initially, as I intimated yesterday, the bond was so close that I was her; or, at least, she was my soul-mate and I was nobody without her. Some years of analysis took care of that. And then, having withdrawn my projection, what was left? Well, at first, nothing; I was bereft. But finally, a great deal more. “In the first place, I got a little closer to who I was, myself, with- 105 See above, p. 62.
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