Make your body and mind pure and peaceful, without any discriminative thinking at all. Sit properly with the body erect. Regulate the breath and concentrate the mind so it is not within you, not outside of you, and not in any intermediate location. Do this carefully and naturally. View your own consciousness tranquilly and attentively, so that you can see how it is always moving, like flowing water or a glittering mirage. After you have perceived this consciousness, simply continue to view it gently and naturally, without [the consciousness assuming any fixed position] inside or outside of yourself. Do this tranquilly and attentively, until its fluctuations dissolve into peaceful stability. This flowing consciousness will disappear like a gust of wind.
When this [flowing] consciousness disappears, [all one’s illusions will] disappear along with it, even the [extremely subtle] illusions of bodhisattvas of the tenth stage. When this consciousness and [false cognition of the] body have disappeared, one’s mind becomes peacefully stable, simple, and pure. I cannot describe it any further. If you want to know more about it, then follow the “Chapter on the Adamantine Body” (Chin-kang shen pin) of the Nirvana Sutra and the “Chapter on the Vision of Aksobhya Buddha” (Chien o-ch'u-fo pin) of the Vimalakirti Sutra. Think about this carefully, for this is the truth.
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From Treatise on the Essentials of Cultivating the Mind
Submitted December 13, 2017 at 06:55PM by KeyserSozen http://ift.tt/2BgqQyF
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