Foyan says that Zen practice is once experiencing the pacification of the discriminating mind, with only the non-discriminating mind remaining. What is the discriminating mind?
The Lankavatara Sutra contains a model for how the mind is seen to be ordered, and how it all fits together:
"Just like waves on the ocean
are stirred by wind
and dance across its surface,
never stopping for a moment,
the Ocean of the Unconscious
is stirred by the winds of external events
and made to dance with waves of Consciousness
in all their multiplicity.
Blue and red and other colors,
sallt, conch shell, milk and honey,
the fragrance of fruit and flowers,
and rays of the sun and moon --
like the ocean and its waves,
they are neither separate nor the same. [1]
The seven kinds of Consciousness
arise from the Unconscious Mind.
Though the Unconscious, the Narrator [2], and the Consciousnesses
all take different forms,
these eight are one and the same,
no seer apart from the seen.
Just as the ocean and its waves
cannot be separated,
so too in the mind
the Unconscious and the Consciousnesses cannot be separated.
Karma accumulates in the Unconscious
through the reflections of the Narrator
and the volitions of the Discriminating Mind,
from a world given form by the five Sensory Minds."
I'm going off to meditate for a while, but please AMA and I'll do my best.
Notes:
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The ocean/waves explanation is the same one given by Jinul in his Straightforward Explanation of the True Mind, with the Absolute being the ocean, and phenomena being waves. Here the ocean is the Unconscious. Huang-Po has said that the Absolute can never be perceived directly; Foyan has said that Mind can never be perceived, unless you see it as not Mind.
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The Narrator is the part of the discriminating mind that attaches the concepts of subject and object to otherwise-bare sensory and hedonic perceptions.
Submitted July 03, 2017 at 03:23AM by ferruix http://ift.tt/2tBz7cf
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