Context:
[Master Huang-Po said:] Now, you should learn only unmindfulness to wipe out all causality and refrain from giving rise to discriminatory thoughts in order to eliminate all concepts of selfness, otherness, desire, anger, like dislike, gain, loss, etc. to recover the self-nature which is fundamentally pure and clean; this is the practice of Bodhi, Dharma and Budhahood. If you do not understand this, although you may widen your knowledge, practice austerities, live on wild fruit and nuts and cover your body with grass and leaves, you will fail to realize your mind; this is just heterodoxy practiced by heavenly demons and heretics and by ghosts and spirits in water and on land. Ch'an Master Pao Chih said, "Our fundamental substance is the self-mind; how can it be sought in books? Now just cognize the self-mind [chien hsin, kensho] and stop your thinking process, and troubles will come to an end."
So "unmindfulness" in this context is unmindfulness of content, objetcs, thoughts, etc, correct?
But mindfulness of self nature is still in tact with this correct? Because if it was also unmindfulness of self nature, well then that's just unconsciousness.
Submitted September 14, 2017 at 04:49AM by kill-all-the-elites http://ift.tt/2wXJ5H1
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