I've heard some people here say of the "flow state", and others that Zen is adaptable and fluid like water.
This is another quote from The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue:
Sentient beings are of an upside-down viewpoint--they "lose themselves and pursue things." Absorbed in a few flavors of the [five] desires [i.e., forms, sounds, smells, tastes and touchables], they are pleased to receive immeasurable suffering. Day by day, before they even open their eyes, before they get out of bed, when they are only half-awake, their minds flutter about, scattered dissolutely in accordance with phantasmal thought. Even before the doing of good and bad actions has become unmanifest, from the time before they've even gotten out of bed, within their minds the heavens [resulting from good action] and the hells [resulting from bad action] are "ready made". When they reach the point at which [good and bad manifest actions] are about to go into effect, there has already been a fall into the eighth [consciousness, i.e., the storehouse consciousness.] Didn't the Buddha say:
All sense faculties are manifestations of the self-mind. As for the storehouse consciousness, the vessel-world and the organ-body, they are constructed and projected by your own false thought. They are like the flow of a river, like seeds, like a lamp, like the wind, like the clouds -- from moment to moment they change. Moving impetuously like a monkey, taking joy in impure places like a fly, thirsting after things but never satisfied, like a wind-driven fire--the cause is beginningless false habit-energy from past births that is like a windlass drawing water from a well.
When you see through this, it's called the "wisdom of neither 'persons' nor 'self'.
Question:
How do you put an end to your karmic conditioning, past births habit-energy, and remove attention from all movement except this internal flow state?
Submitted December 26, 2017 at 08:02PM by Dillon123 http://ift.tt/2BSYo74
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