This is called the Law of All the Buddhas. Discuss it as you may, how can you even hope to approach the truth through words? Nor can it be perceived cither subjectively or objectively. So full understanding can come to you only through an inexpressible mystery. The approach to it is called the Gateway of the Stillness beyond all Activity- If you wish to understand, know that a sudden comprehension comes when the mind has been purged of all the clutter of conceptual and discriminatory thought-activity. Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.
Who/what prohibits you to wish to understand, to purge the mind of all the clutter of conceptual and discriminatory thought-activity?
Who/what prohibits you to not(!) to seek the truth by means of intellect and learning?
If you want to harmonize with the realm of buddhahood, if you can just keep introspectively aware twenty-four hours a day, not giving up through every state of mind, one day it will be like meeting an old friend in a busy city: "Oh! So here you are!"
When you get to this state, errant thoughts and all grasping melt right away, and everything becomes your own subtle function.
If you can get rid of the veils over the mind, restore the root of nature, and clearly see the mind in the midst of everyday life, then emotions, thoughts, and desires; creation, subsistence, change, and extinction; earth, water, fire, and air, are all your own subtle functions.
-Ch'ih-chueh
Who/what prohibits you to follow that to the end? Who/what prohibits you to even start?
-
Condition is not in reading books
-
Condition is not in arguing about the meaning
-
Condition is not in me
Submitted September 26, 2018 at 10:02AM by ZaoPing https://ift.tt/2Duu0kL
No comments:
Post a Comment