Once more, all phenomena are basically without existence, though you cannot now say that they are nonexistent. Karma having arisen does not thereby exist; karma destroyed does not thereby cease to exist. Even its root does not exist, for that root is no root. Moreover, Mind is not Mind, for whatever that term connotes is far from the reality it symbolizes. Form, too, is not really form. So if I now state that there are no phenomena and no Original Mind, you will begin to understand something of the intuitive Dharma silently conveyed to Mind with Mind. Since phenomena and no-phenomena are one, there is neither phenomena nor no-phenomena, and the only possible transmission is to Mind with Mind.
Huangbo Xiyun, On the Transmission of Mind, translated by John Blofeld, 1958
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Wandering Ronin commentary and questions: Void is Void, and there is nothing beside that remains. No action can escape it, no practice can touch it, as every action is already it and every practice is within it. It cannot be known, and it cannot be unknown. Understandings are meaningless here, and lack of understanding doesn't lessen it.
There is no trouble anywhere, and there are no complications. There is nothing to affirm, or anything to negate. It is neither near or far. One doesn't have to understand or access it in any way; there's not even an 'it' anywhere to be found, and there never was a lack of 'it' to begin with.
Submitted October 20, 2019 at 06:07AM by WanderingRoninXIII https://ift.tt/2oW1vWw
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