Someone asked Zen Master Seung Sahn,
"What do you think about the beginning of this world?"
"The beginning of this world came from your mouth. Ha ha ha ha! Do you understand?"
The student was silent.
"Then I will explain: what is this world? You must understand that point first. You make time, space, cause and effect. In three seconds, when you asked that question, you made this whole world. Physics used to teach that time and space, and cause and effect, are absolutes. But modern physics teaches that time, space, and cause and effect are subjective. So you make this whole world, and you make your time and space..."
It is the mind, continually creating, that builds up all patterns of experience, judgments, grasping rejecting, ever restless, often under the surface of conscious experience, only half-noticed: the unseen dictator, author, actor and audience as well...
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