Pierrot on the ball
Let's talk a little bit more complicated this time, Zen has neither this nor that. There's a lot of these kinds of words.
The reason is Zen master's consideration to prevent our delusions, which are obsessed with words, from being attached to our thoughts, and to stop them at once.
We should not be biased to either side, usually when talking about the middle, not the left-hand side, but the upper-and-lower middle.
So when interpreting the middle of Buddhism in English, interpreting it as just "midway" is completely misinterpreted.
There is no example of that in our heads because the middle of the line is beyond the two, not the meaning of the middle.
My Zen master compares it to a bicycle, not to be too biased to the left when learning a bicycle, so when teaching a bicycle to someone, when the direction of the bicycle seems to lean to the left, he shouts the right.
But the right side at that time is not what we know is what the right side means.
Because if you lean to the right, you'll shout to the left.
In order for a bicycle to go straight, it needs its center, not its right or left, and its center includes both right and left.
And it's like Pierrot walking on a ball, you have to go backwards to go forward, and you have to go forwards, to go backward.
Also, you have to go to the right again to go to the left, and you have to go to the left again to go to the right.
As you can see, if you follow the words from top to bottom, it's distracting, but for those who like to use their brains, they use this method.
Eventually, however, the mind that went to the left, right, up, down, front, back, etc. eventually meets in its unchanging center.
What doesn't change? What doesn't change when riding a bike, when Pierrot walks on a ball, or if he doesn't follow only the various directions?
The famous family of Bangs in China, whose two married couples, their son and daughter, were both enlightened, and after realizing, Bang said, "It's difficult, and so difficult," his wife said, "It's easy, and so easy," and their daughter said, "It's not difficult, and it's not easy."
What doesn't change if you don't follow it when it's hard, when it's easy, if you don't follow it when it's easy, or when it's not difficult or easy?
This is so easy, so difficult.
Pierrot is on "this", cyclists are on "this", and those who are curious about it are on "this", so they always say they don't know while riding it.
