Realization obliterates the subject-object split; it's not that there's some mysterious principle besides.
When you see, let there be no seer or seen; when you hear, let there be no hearer or heard; when you think, let there be no thinker or thought [no separation of seer and seen, of hearer and heard, of thinker and thought].
If you ask what power we should have all of, it is the power of nondeception. If you see anything in the slightest different from mind, you forfeit your own life. Thus for those who attain the path, there is nothing that is not it.
But what about the basis of awareness itself -- how do you study that?
People nowadays mostly take the immediate mirroring awareness to be the ultimate principle. This is why Xuansha [835-908] said to people, "Tell me, does it still exist in remote uninhabited places deep in the mountains?"
Foyan Qingyuan [1067-1120]
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Wandering Ronin commentary and questions: The sun, when not seen at night, illuminates the moon. The moon cannot been seen without illumination from the sun. Hence, there is the sun, the light of the sun, and then the moon. With the obliteration of the subject-object split as taught by Foyan, what in this chain can be broken? Is there anything superfluous or out of place? Mind is actualized and realized by what it illuminates, even though the absolute source of Mind cannot directly be perceived. What can be perceived that is not mind?
Submitted February 08, 2019 at 09:18PM by WanderingRoninXIII http://bit.ly/2DlJWm1
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