Luoshan about mysterious **it**

Once you’re locked in stocks, even though innocent, when will you ever get out?

Comment: so far quite clear, average zen adept with clear mind, but locked in myriad things, seeking way out

It is ever-present, flowing ceaselessly, independent and free — there has never been any doctrine that could encompass it, never any doctrine that could be its equivalent. It immediately appears on stimulus, turns freely on contact, encompassing sound and form. In extension it flows everywhere, without inhibition, always manifest before the eyes. How could this be a state of immobility? Go out, and nothing is not it; go in, and everything returns to the source.

Comment: When consciousness of any being appears, it become it. When any being uses it, it become myriad things. When conscious being tries to grasp on myriad things, it will change into myriad things. When conscious being renounces body, self and things as void, consciousness can return to it.

Luoshan something added to collection of my zen manuals:

Prior to voicing, utterly transcendent, how could it fall into being or nonbeing? So it is said that the unique expression prior to voicing cannot be communicated but by sages; if you haven’t ever approached it, it’s like being a universe away. Everyone knows the unique expression prior to voicing; how do you understand this? Ordinarily it is said, ‘Before voicing is a road that lets you understand clearly; if you don’t come forth after expression, you’re still missing a half. If there is anything, however slight, that you fail to penetrate, it is like being blocked off by an iron wall.’ How do you ask questions and give answers in an extraordinary meeting? "

Comment: "before voicing" means in my opinion something like "before any thought is born", before anything is expressed by thought, imaginery, word.

"if you don’t come forth after expression" means in my understanding action; participation on world affairs, not staying glaring to wall, expressing mysterious it.

"If there is anything, however slight, that you fail to penetrate, it is like being blocked off by an iron wall"

in my understanding is that if any trace of objectivity will remain, any external object, rule, teaching, bind, like, dislike, anything that can misguide consciousness to again grasp it, we are blocked again.

Luoshan Daoxian Cleary, Thomas. Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching: volume I .

So what is it, dear r/zen? Can you voice it? I am quite bad in voicing, still penetrating walls :))

Submitted November 19, 2019 at 04:35PM by OnePoint11 https://ift.tt/2KA6fIO