When people engaged in meditation read the scriptual teachings and the stories of the circumstances in which the ancient worthies entered the Path, they should just empty their minds. Don't look for the original marvel or seek enlightenment in sounds, names, and verbal meanings. If you take this attitude, you're obstructing your own correct knowledgr and perception, and you'll never have an entry. P'an Shan said, "It's like hurling a sword in the sky: no talk of whether it reaches or not!" Don't be careless! Vimalakirti said that the Truth goes beyond eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and intellect. If you want to penetrate this Truth, first you must clear out the gates of the 6 senses, leaving them without the slightest affliction. What does "affliction" mean? It means to be turned around by form, sound, scent, taste, touch and phenomena, and not detatching from them. It's seeking knowledge and looking for understanding in the words and phrases of the scriptual teachings and the ancient worthies. If you can avoid giving rise to a second thought about the scriptural teachings or the stories of the ancients entering the Path, and realize directly what they go back to, then there will be nothing in your realm or in the realm of others that is not according to your will, nothing of which you are not the master.
Submitted August 08, 2017 at 03:13AM by WildFoxBuddha http://ift.tt/2wnOh3P
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