Resolution*: the process or capability of making distinguishable the individual parts of an objectTo study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever. Dogen Zenji, Genjo KoanResolution: a rule of inference used for automated theorem proving
I've long feared that my practice wasn't "good enough". Even my practice of nyoho-e, "sewing the Buddha's robe", was punctuated by nightmares of black-robed monsters pulling out my stitches while fiercely admonishing, "you're doing it wrong." They appear again and again even now, in my day-to-day. It's been a strain, parlaying practice from temple to home.
Resolution: a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group.
Zen practice and instruction in the west is lame, weak and watered down. Norman Fisher? Puhuleeze.
Eye awareness is not existent in the eye. It is not existent in form, nor in the space in between. What is constructed dependent upon the eye and form is erroneous.
If the eye does not see itself, how can it see form? Therefore, the eye and form are insubstantial. The remaining sense spheres are also similar.
The eye is empty of its own substantiality. It is empty of another's substantiality. Similarly, form is also empty, and also the remaining sense spheres.
-Nagarjuna, Seventy Verses on Emptiness
Resolution: the move of a note or chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to a consonance (a stable sound)
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