Now at all times while you are walking, standing, sitting and reclining, practice only unmindfulness free from all differentiation, reliance and clinging, and pay no heed to anything, like a stupid man whom nobody wants to know and who does not want others to know him, with a dull mind like an insensible rock without fissures, which no externals can enter; if your mind is so intractable and does not cling to anything there will be some chance for you to fall into line with absolute Reality, thereby leaping over the three worlds. Only then can you aspire to be a Buddha appearing in the world to liberate living beings. This passionless mind is called transcendental wisdom which will prevent you forming the good karma of men and devas and the evil karma of the hells, and will eliminate all causes that affect the mind. Your body and mind will be those of a kingly man; this does not mean that you are bodiless but that you can create a body at will (manomakaya).
At present, in this Dharma ending age, most students of Ch'an cling to all sorts of sounds and forms. Why do not they, together with me, reduce the mind to the state of empty space, of a withered log, of a stone, of cold ashes and extinct fire?
Only then can there be some little degree of responsiveness to the absolute thatness, otherwise they will later have to be flogged by Yama for their sins.
-Master Huang-Po (from The Transmission of the Mind Outside the Teaching, by Charles Luk)
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