If you do not produce anything in your mind, and are not fixated on anything, then you have no object of esteem. When you have no object of esteem, you naturally have no greed and no dependence on things, independent in the midst of things, with bare boned strength.
If you want such accord right now, it is not difficult; just be equanimous in mind, unaffected by anything. What is affectation? Formulating concepts of sentient beings, concepts of Buddha, concepts of the mundane, concepts of the transcendental, concepts of seeking detachment, concepts of seeking enlightened knowledge. These are all called affectations. Just concentrate intensely on the brink of arousal, and leap out in one jump—this mind will be clear, independently liberated. Then as soon as you sense this, turn upward, and you will spontaneously be lucid everywhere; it will be evident in everything.
When you manage to reach such a state, don’t keep taking note of it. If you keep taking note of it, then you’ll have an object of esteem. As soon as you have an object of esteem, this mind leaks. This is just called a leaking mind, not an equanimous mind.
Equanimity means equanimous toward good and bad, equanimous toward turning away and turning to, equanimous toward principle and phenomena, equanimous toward ordinary and holy, equanimous toward the finite and the infinite, equanimous toward substance and function. This principle is only known to those who realize it experientially. If you haven’t realized experientially, you simply must get experiential realization. Only when you’re attained experiential realization can you be called real home leavers. If your mind does not experience realization and you grasp realization outside of mind, this is called an outsider who has left home; you are not fit to be a monk.
from Dahui's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Submitted June 19, 2017 at 06:52PM by KeyserSozen http://ift.tt/2sivI0T
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