Here, I am thus every day, thus all the time. But tell me, what is "thus"? Try to express it outside of discriminatory consciousness, intellectual assessments, and verbal formulations. This reality is not susceptible to your intellectual understanding. ... How can you think of your original mind? How can you see your own eye? ... What can be seen by the eye or heard by the ear can be studied in the scriptures.
Zen Teachings of Fo-yen: Sermons by Chinese Zen Master Fo-yen Ching-yuan [1067-1120]
Instant Zen: Waking Up in the Present, 1994, written by Thomas Cleary
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Wandering Ronin commentary: We must let fall body and mind. What does this mean? The body is the body of form, and the mind is the mind of perceptions. When they are let go, this causes all concepts to be dropped at once. Then, mountains are no longer mountains. Why? Because all unskillful and burdensome concepts that obscured the mountains are gone, and form is seen clear through.
Submitted February 01, 2019 at 01:45AM by WanderingRoninXIII http://bit.ly/2G1bYXC
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