All those with conditioned minds are as far apart from true reality as the sky is from the earth. Right now, if you cannot pass through the barrier, it is obviously because your mind has many serious attachments. If you can clear these away and reach the realm where there is no conditioned mind, all delusions and defilements and emotional habits will end, and all the obstructions created by conditioned knowledge and arbitrary views and intellectual understanding will be dissolved away-what else is there?
This is why Nanquan said that, once freed from its conditioning, the ordinary mind is the Way. But as soon as you produce a thought seeking to be "ordinary," you have already turned away and missed it. This is the point that is most subtle and hardest to approach. even immeasurably great people falter and hesitate when they get here-how much the more for those still in the age of learning.
You must strive with all your might to bite through here and cut off conditioned habits of mind. Be like a person who has died the great death: after your breath is cut off, then you come back to life. Only then do you realize that it is as open as empty space. Only then do you reach the point where your feet are walking on the ground of reality. ~ Yuanwu
What a bunch of religious insanity. This Buddhist who believes "ordinary mind" means "freed from its conditioning" needs to read some Huangpo.
Submitted June 26, 2017 at 10:33PM by ZenMovie http://ift.tt/2tcGbMM
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