By every teaching I mean every Zen teaching; instructions, koans and cases. Every Buddhist technique, every non-Buddhist technique, and every scripture that has ever been written and every scripture that ever will be written.
Why is that? Because they all point to the Unborn. I started this journey when I was 18. From then, I already knew there was nothing to achieve in the world. I've now been at this for 14 years, read thousands of books on every kind of enlightenment tradition on earth, practiced thousands of techniques and non-techniques. Done everything, and done nothing.
The Unborn's it. There is no instruction, no practice or non-practice, that doesn't lead the same place. I've approached it from a thousand angles, and there is only ever the Unborn.
What is the practice of the Unborn? Hard to talk about it. Suffice to say, it's pointing at your own mind. It doesn't appear as an object though, it's more like putting a car into neutral, or putting your mind in its sheath.
The good news is this: it doesn't matter what you do. Just do anything and do it wholeheartedly, you will encounter the Unborn.
What is the Unborn? Don't try to understand it or talk about it. It's like when you're tightrope walking. How to keep your balance? Can't be talked about, it is something you learn, a feeling, a knack.
Am I saying it has something to do with balance? No, not at all. Just that it must be understood by yourself.
Do any practice, but do it, and you will understand this "Unborn". Once you do, it is simply a matter of choosing. Do you choose the Unborn, or do you choose to encourage aimless contemplation? It is still difficult, but at least you have a choice.
Submitted January 28, 2020 at 07:16PM by Blue_Sky_Record https://ift.tt/3aQu0rV
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