Missing Dragon

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Duncan Mason


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Stumbling forward with thefinest equipmentmoney can buy.Precisely navigating innowhere.Lost. Now. Here.Nowhere...


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Traces of truth,hints and guesses lead

the unsuspectingpilgrim into the timeless

encounterwith the rock,

the burning bush,the insatiable dragon.


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Did I find youor did you find me?Like a thunderbolt

recognitionfear.

Yet I must dare.


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All traps require bait. A pure heart is easily caught. Snared and singed, wingsbroken, grounded. Once caught how will I tame this dangerous creature?


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Silently sailingOn zephyrous breezesWings fully spread

All resistance quelledMind and heart are one.


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Heaven and earth and I are of the same root;all things and I are of the same source.

Mirrors shining: Gazing with sheer awareness into sheer awareness.


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Before enlightenment -chop wood and carry water.After enlightenment -chop wood and carry water.


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In search of the missing dragonis based on anancient zen story from china. the original story iscalled in search of the missing ox and is a metaphorfor the meditation process, the difficulties and

challenges facing someone who, engaged in theprocess of meditation, is trying to control and tamethe mind (the ox).

I originally encountered the 'story' in Sekida's bookZen Training.However, it struck me that in these daysof media overload and multi-tasking mayhem, ourminds are much more akin to the dragon: quixotic,capricious, unpredictable, impetuous, and that taming amodern day mind may be considerably more

challenging. The original is a series of images havingthe following titles (which I have followed):

In search of the Missing dragon (ox),finding the footprints,

getting a glimpse,taming the dragon,

riding the dragon home,dragon gone: man remaining,

no dragon: no Man,returning to the source,back in town with helping hands.

In acknowledgement:

Hixon, Lex.Mother of the Buddhas: Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra.Quest Books, USA, 1993.

Sekida, Katsuki.Zen Training: Methods & Philosophy.Weatherhill, Tokyo & USA, 1985.


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The guardian deity wanted to have a look at Tozan Osho(zen patriarch), but found he could not, and so he devised

a trick. He took some rice and wheat from the kitchen of

the monastery and scattered it in the yard. In the monastery,things are taken good care of, simply because they exist.Tozan found the rice and wheat strewn on the ground andsaid to himself, Whoever could have been so thoughtless

as to do this? And at that moment the deity was able to havea look at Tozan. (Sekida 35)


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