When the illusory body faces a mirror and its form is reflected, the reflected form is not different from the illusory body. If you only want to get rid of the reflection but leave the body, you do not realize the body is fundamentally the same as space.
The body is basically not different from the reflection. You cannot have one without the other: If you try to keep one and get rid of the other, you’ll be forever estranged from the truth. Even more, if you love the holy and hate the ordinary, you’ll bob in the ocean of birth and death.
Afflictions have reasons based on mind; when mindless, where can afflictions abide? If you do not bother to discriminate and grasp appearances, you will attain the Way naturally in an instant. While dreaming, you act in dreams; when you awaken, dreamland doesn’t exist. If you think back to waking and dreaming, they are not different from deluded dualism.
If you seek to gain by reforming illusion and grasping awakening, how is that different from involvement in commerce? When movement and stillness are both forgotten, and you are ever serene, then you spontaneously merge with reality as it is.
If you say that sentient beings are different from Buddha, then you are forever alienated from Buddha. Buddha and sentient beings are not two; this naturally comprehends all.
~ Pao-chih, from "The Zen Reader", trans. by Thomas Cleary
Submitted May 28, 2019 at 04:58PM by mojo-power http://bit.ly/2W6ygzL
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