That line stopped me: success and failure as two sides of the same coin, empty of inherent existence.
Mr. Miyagi never uses Buddhist language. But he's teaching what Mahayana traditions have circled for centuries.
In Zen, what keeps suffering in place isn't the situation. It's the craving attached to how the situation resolves. Daniel can't hear a dharma talk. He can only experience his own chains.
The tournament works as a teaching precisely because he wants the outcome so badly. That wanting is the thing being undone.
One thing I'm still sitting with: do you think Miyagi chose to let Daniel go back because he knew winning would leave him just as empty, or because he trusted Daniel would find his own way regardless?
It might have been both. The way that could be found is of two kinds. Either you take th route of craving, going in for winning, accumulating power, suffer and achieve materialistically. Or you realise the emptiness of the results, and work with equanimity to overcome your chains. He left him to figure out the way in the hope he finds the meaning empty. Thanks and regards.
That line stopped me: success and failure as two sides of the same coin, empty of inherent existence.
Mr. Miyagi never uses Buddhist language. But he's teaching what Mahayana traditions have circled for centuries.
In Zen, what keeps suffering in place isn't the situation. It's the craving attached to how the situation resolves. Daniel can't hear a dharma talk. He can only experience his own chains.
The tournament works as a teaching precisely because he wants the outcome so badly. That wanting is the thing being undone.
One thing I'm still sitting with: do you think Miyagi chose to let Daniel go back because he knew winning would leave him just as empty, or because he trusted Daniel would find his own way regardless?
It might have been both. The way that could be found is of two kinds. Either you take th route of craving, going in for winning, accumulating power, suffer and achieve materialistically. Or you realise the emptiness of the results, and work with equanimity to overcome your chains. He left him to figure out the way in the hope he finds the meaning empty. Thanks and regards.