Bodaïshin, holy mind

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Bodaïshin c’est la bodhiccita des tibétains, l’esprit de compassion, l’amour bienveillant vers les autres qui résulte directement du voeu de boddhisattva : pour des kalpas on reviendra sur Terre aider tous les êtres sans exception ! C’est fort ! (voir l’article Nature de Bouddha chaud devant !)

Just something in my mind about the enlightened mind.  An enlightened mind need to be holy. Nothing to do with the Holy Spirit from the Trinity, just I’m wondering about a sane holy mind. In french we can’t hear a difference between ‘ saint : holy’ and  ‘ sain : sane’. The both are tied together.  Visionary spirit isn’t the meaning. No spirit at all, a simple mind to be aware of your experience to think or to feel. That mind is precious, we have such a holy mind. This mind have to be morally and spiritually excellent, and it’s not so easy but it’s possible !  No belief in something or in someone faithfully. Just keep your eyes great opened and believe what you feel in resonance inside you.

When you are a zen monk you’d heard from>daishin, the great large mind Dôgen talked about in the Tenzo Kyukun. Three types of mind:kishin (happy mind), roshin (loving empathetic mind), and daishin (great large open mind). All in one contents the powerfull mind of Bodaishin, the mind pulling you on the real path, the Buddha’s middle way. Like riding a bicycle, you try a lot of time before, and one morning you see yourself on the bicycle and it works automatically without any thoughts.  It’s a knowledge coming from practice. In Zen we practice zazen. It’s actually the path before us, we’ve to walk on it. We are getting this understanding not at a special occasion, we don’t know exactly when. It’s your skill, but nothing like Illumination or Enlightenment which is supposed permanent. It’s not a good way in buddhism to wait for illumination. When you get Bodaïshin no warning above your both eyes, no special sign inside your body. Just your life seems a little more efficient, the reality  more perceptible. Impossible to reveal the reason why, but our mind is more accurate. You’ve got a larger field of vision.  You’re observing people from a high panoramic site, but in the same time you are very near on the same level, you look at the other eyes and inside them you can find a hope, a kindness in resonance with yours. Thoughts are coming in you, few enigmatic questions, no automatic answers. No way to scratch your head. The knowledge is there, not so far but endless. You just freshen up  feel and look, with a peaceful mind. Everywhere you turn your eyes is full of  interests.

This mind is precious and holy. This excellence needs to be protect from yourself, from your Ego. It is a holy way, holy in the meaning of being rare, this way you’ve to keep it and therefore it’s necessary to clean it up, every day you’ve to be morally irreproachable. Not necessary to become some reverend, someone with a big and strong reputation. It’s better to keep the mind of an ordinary monk. You know you’ve to help others first, and to do it no acting, no proselytism. Just meditate in zazen and keep the head right vertical. The eyes are horizontal and the nose vertical wrote Dôgen ! It means no desire, no wish, no appealing smile, no laugh hurting you, nothing disturbing you. Staying strong like a tree, nothing else and looking inside you, every day in a Zen Dojo. If your mind isn’t clear, it’ll be very difficult to climb up the mountain where you were sometimes accidentally. Absolutely necessary to keep this holy mind ever, and never falling down. Others need to change too.  It’s an other reason for not falling down. That’s the way of the Bodhisattva to radiate with this holy mind. ©daniel BukohoTen 2025

texte originel de janvier 2013 … pas une lettre de changée, juste le titre et l’avant propos en français. et la photo de Marie Zen à la sesshin de commémoration de maître Kosen du 9 novembre 2025, merci Marie !