If you were to rescue it then you would not be seeing with your two eyes. And if you were not to rescue it, shapes and shadows would no longer be manifest.

Your true nature is something never lost to you even in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of Enlightenment... In it is neither delusion nor right understanding. It fills the Void everywhere and is intrinsically of the substance of the One Mind. How, then, can your mind-created objects exist outside the Void? ...Then how can it even be a matter for discussion that the real Buddha has no mouth and preaches no Dharma, or that real hearing requires no ears, for who could hear it?

~Huangbo

Don't seek a buddha, don't seek a teaching, don't seek a community. Don't see virtue, knowledge, intellectual understanding, and so on. When feelings of defilement and purity are ended, still don't hold to this nonseeking and consider it right. Don't dwell at the point of ending, and don't long for heavens or fear hells. When you are unhindered by bondage or freedom, then this is called liberation of mind and body in all places.

~Baizhang

One of my fellow students, one Elder Li, saw my late teacher for a year and a half; every time he went in for a personal interview, the teacher would just say to him, “ Elder, have you distinguished black and white at all?” Every time he went, this is what happened. How do you interpret talk like this? How do you work?

Nowadays there are no adepts like this helping people. There are no elders who seek like this either. Anyone else would have gotten upset.

~Foyan

Submitted January 08, 2019 at 02:43AM by Bingo_Maru http://bit.ly/2RdpMUY