This matter lies in the swiftness and sharpness of the person involved. Once you have taken it up and put it into practice, and you know ou have your own place to stand, you should be aloof and independent-- stand alone and go alone. You should cut off sentiments and detach from perception and make yourself empty and silent so there is not a single thing that can be grasped. Cut off the myriad entanglements, and make yourself free and untrammeled, and reach the stage of great peace. When this is closely continuous without any leaks, this is what is called stranding like a wall miles high, lofty and steep.
After that you come back to the world and respond to beings. Since there is never any sense of self, how could there be any realms of sound and form, of adversity and ease, of delusion and enlightenment?
What is most difficult is to be perfectly at rest, not activating the conceptual faculty. If you are suddenly dragged off by it, you have leaked and tarried. You must continue to concentrate so that your mind does not wander off. After a long time it will fuse into one whole. This at last is where you find rest.
From here you must still go on to master transcendent action. An ancient worthy said, "Find the seat and put on the robe, and afterward see for yourself."
Submitted December 18, 2017 at 01:14AM by planetbyter http://ift.tt/2ziTsFr
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