Compare the Blue Cliff Record case 89, "Hands and Eyes All Over"[36] (or "The Hands and Eyes of the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion"[37]); idem Book of Serenity Case 54; Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo ("Dogen's 300 koans") Case 105, also in Dogen's Kana Shobogenzo, chapters Daishugyo and Kannon:[38]
Ungan asked Dogo, “What does the bodhisattva of great compassion use so many hands and eyes for?”
Dogo said, “Like someone reaching back for a pillow in the middle of the night.”
Ungan said, “I understand.”
Dogo said, “How do you understand?”
Ungan said, “All over the body are hands and eyes.”
Dogo said, “You’ve said quite a bit, but you’ve only expressed eighty percent.”
Ungan said, “What about you?”
Dogo said, “Throughout the body are hands and eyes.”
Hakuin comments: "Throughout the body are hands and eyes—The elbow doesn’t bend outward";[36] a Japanese expression, meaning that it is natural, things are as they are. Compare the fifth of the Five Ranks, Unity Attained, which completes Hakuin's understanding of the course of Zen-training, referring to the "mellow maturity of consciousness."[39] The expression is also used by D.T Suzuki, see here and here.
See also the many commentaries to be found at the internet for "reaching back for a pillow in the middle of the night,” and the following comment by Zarrilli about Kalaripayattu, a amrtial art from Kerala, South-India: "In Kerala, there is a folk expression which summarizes the martial practitioner's ideal state of psychophysiologicaVpneumatic accomplishment explored here--a state in which the "body becomes all eyes" (meyyu kannakuka). One reading of the "body as all eyes" is as the yogic/Ayurvedic bodymind, which intuitively responds to the sensory environment and which is healthful and fluid in its congruency. It is the animal body in which there is unmediated, uncensored, immediate respondence to stimuli. Like Brahma, the "thousand eyed," the practitioner who is accomplished can "see" everywhere around him, intuitively sensing danger in the environment and responding immediately."
Compare the Blue Cliff Record case 89, "Hands and Eyes All Over"[36] (or "The Hands and Eyes of the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion"[37]); idem Book of Serenity Case 54; Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo ("Dogen's 300 koans") Case 105, also in Dogen's Kana Shobogenzo, chapters Daishugyo and Kannon:[38]
Ungan asked Dogo, “What does the bodhisattva of great compassion use so many hands and eyes for?”
Dogo said, “Like someone reaching back for a pillow in the middle of the night.”
Ungan said, “I understand.”
Dogo said, “How do you understand?”
Ungan said, “All over the body are hands and eyes.”
Dogo said, “You’ve said quite a bit, but you’ve only expressed eighty percent.”
Ungan said, “What about you?”
Dogo said, “Throughout the body are hands and eyes.”
Hakuin comments: "Throughout the body are hands and eyes—The elbow doesn’t bend outward";[36] a Japanese expression, meaning that it is natural, things are as they are. Compare the fifth of the Five Ranks, Unity Attained, which completes Hakuin's understanding of the course of Zen-training, referring to the "mellow maturity of consciousness."[39] The expression is also used by D.T Suzuki, see here and here.
See also the many commentaries to be found at the internet for "reaching back for a pillow in the middle of the night,” and the following comment by Zarrilli about Kalaripayattu, a amrtial art from Kerala, South-India: "In Kerala, there is a folk expression which summarizes the martial practitioner's ideal state of psychophysiologicaVpneumatic accomplishment explored here--a state in which the "body becomes all eyes" (meyyu kannakuka). One reading of the "body as all eyes" is as the yogic/Ayurvedic bodymind, which intuitively responds to the sensory environment and which is healthful and fluid in its congruency. It is the animal body in which there is unmediated, uncensored, immediate respondence to stimuli. Like Brahma, the "thousand eyed," the practitioner who is accomplished can "see" everywhere around him, intuitively sensing danger in the environment and responding immediately."
Compare the Blue Cliff Record case 89, "Hands and Eyes All Over"[36] (or "The Hands and Eyes of the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion"[37]); idem Book of Serenity Case 54; Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo ("Dogen's 300 koans") Case 105, also in Dogen's Kana Shobogenzo, chapters Daishugyo and Kannon:[38]
Ungan asked Dogo, “What does the bodhisattva of great compassion use so many hands and eyes for?”
Dogo said, “Like someone reaching back for a pillow in the middle of the night.”
Ungan said, “I understand.”
Dogo said, “How do you understand?”
Ungan said, “All over the body are hands and eyes.”
Dogo said, “You’ve said quite a bit, but you’ve only expressed eighty percent.”
Ungan said, “What about you?”
Dogo said, “Throughout the body are hands and eyes.”
Hakuin comments: "Throughout the body are hands and eyes—The elbow doesn’t bend outward";[36] a Japanese expression, meaning that it is natural, things are as they are. Compare the fifth of the Five Ranks, Unity Attained, which completes Hakuin's understanding of the course of Zen-training, referring to the "mellow maturity of consciousness."[39] The expression is also used by D.T Suzuki, see here and here.
See also the many commentaries to be found at the internet for "reaching back for a pillow in the middle of the night,” and the following comment by Zarrilli about Kalaripayattu, a amrtial art from Kerala, South-India: "In Kerala, there is a folk expression which summarizes the martial practitioner's ideal state of psychophysiologicaVpneumatic accomplishment explored here--a state in which the "body becomes all eyes" (meyyu kannakuka). One reading of the "body as all eyes" is as the yogic/Ayurvedic bodymind, which intuitively responds to the sensory environment and which is healthful and fluid in its congruency. It is the animal body in which there is unmediated, uncensored, immediate respondence to stimuli. Like Brahma, the "thousand eyed," the practitioner who is accomplished can "see" everywhere around him, intuitively sensing danger in the environment and responding immediately."
