The mind, discriminating intellect, and consciousness of students of the Path should be quiet and still 24 hours a day. When you have nothing to do, you should sit quietly and keep your mind from slackening and the body from wavering. If you practice to perfection ovet a long long time, naturally body and mind will come to rest at ease, and you will have some direction in the Path. The perfection of quiescence and stillness indeed settles the scattered and confuded false conciousness of sentient being, but if you cling to quiescent stillness and consider it the ultimate, then you're in the grip of perverted "silent illumination" Ch'an.
- Dahui, swampland flowers #4
Submitted August 19, 2016 at 03:32AM by ChanZong http://ift.tt/2bjsnpd
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