wondrous being – zen

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Everyone comes out from nothingness moment after moment.

Moment after moment we have true joy of life.

So we say shin ku myo u,

“from true emptiness,

the wondrous being appears.”

Shin is “true”; ku is “emptiness”; myo is “wondrous”;

u is “being” :

from true emptiness, wondrous being.

Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind p.109

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my comments:

Shin Ku Myo U

from true emptiness
the wondrous being appears

“So we say shin ku myo u, ‘from true emptiness, the wondrous being appears.’ Shin is ‘true’; ku is ’emptiness’; myo is ‘wondrous’; u is ‘being’ : from true emptiness, wondrous being.”

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki

Zen: shin ku myo u

“Moment after moment, everyone comes out from nothingness. This is the true joy of life. So we say shin ku myo u, “from true emptiness, the wondrous being appears.” Shin is “true”; ku is “emptiness”; myo is “wondrous”; u is “being” : from true emptiness, wondrous being.”

excerpt from

NATURALNESS

There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believe in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call jinen ken gedo, or heretical naturalness. Jinen ken gedo means that there is no need to be formal—just a kind of “let-alone policy” or sloppiness. That is naturalness for most people. But that is not the naturalness we mean.