People of the world study various branches of learning—why don’t they attain enlightenment? Because they see themselves—that’s why they don’t attain enlightenment. The self means the ego; perfected people are not troubled when they experience misery, and are not delighted when they experience pleasure, because they don’t see self. The reason they are not concerned by pain or pleasure is that they are selfless and therefore attain supreme emptiness.
If even the self is not there, what would not disappear? If all things are empty, who cultivates the path? If you have a ‘who,’ then you need to cultivate the path. If there is no ‘who,’ then you don’t need to cultivate the path. ‘Who’ is the ego; if you are egoless, then you don’t create judgments as you encounter things.
When you affirm something as so, that is your own affirmation, not that the thing itself is so. When you deny something as not so, that is your own denial, not that the thing itself is not so.
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Submitted June 21, 2017 at 07:27PM by koancomentator http://ift.tt/2sTT8uV
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