Italics are my emphasis, bold is super duper important
The ancients worked hard for the sake of the one Great Cause. Their determination is indeed worthy of respect, and they served as an everlasting example for later generations.
When you set your body on the meditation bench, it is no more than silencing and emptying the mind and thoughts and investigating with your whole being. Just make your mind and thoughts clarify and become still. A fine place to do active meditation work is amid confusion and disturbances. When you do active meditation, you must penetrate through the heights and the depths, without omitting anything. The whole essential being appears ready-made before you, and it no longer arises from anywhere else. It is just this one Great Potential turning smoothly and steadily. Why talk anymore about "worldly phenomena" and "enlightened truth?" If you maintain a uniform equilibrium over months and years, naturally your stand will be true and solid.
You will experience realization, like water being poured into water, like gold being traded for gold. Everything will be equalized in One Suchness, profoundly clear, real, and pure. This is knowing how to live.
Just do not give birth to a single thought: let go and become crystal clear. As soon as any notions of right and wrong and self and others and gain and loss are present, do not follow them off. Then you will be personally studying with your own true enlightened teacher.
If you do that, what worry is there that this work will not be accomplished? You must see for yourself!
LvM commentary:
Finally, something useful to cling to! Who says Zen masters don't babysit?
LvM Gatha:
The sword Taia, made of glass
Covered in blood, mine and others
Practice striking at all times
If it shatters, reforge it
Submitted February 09, 2019 at 01:00AM by ludwigvonmises http://bit.ly/2E1sg0v
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