Great Master Bodhidharma’s Teaching on Peace of Mind says,
When people are deluded, they follow things; when people are liberated, things follow them. If you’re liberated, then consciousness absorbs form; if you’re deluded, form absorbs consciousness.
As long as there is conscious discrimination making comparative assessments of the immediate experience of your own mind, it is all dreams. If the conscious mind is silent, without any stirring thought, this is called true awareness.
Note: So here we have (supposedly) Bodhidharma saying that " If the conscious mind is silent, without any stirring thought, this is called true awareness", but we also have a master like Huangbo saying that not thinking is just another form of creation and not Zen. So obviously not stirring thought isn't the same thing as not thinking.
Link to Dahui Shobogenzo: http://ift.tt/2sMvikt
Submitted June 18, 2017 at 08:16PM by koancomentator http://ift.tt/2rtlxnb
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