Just let go and be natural and naked: you do not need to keep thinking fixedly. In the dark, the moment you prize anything, it has turned into a nest, a dodge. The ancients called this clothing sticking to the body, a disease most difficult to cure. When I was journeying in the past, I called on teachers in one or two places; they just taught day and night concentration, sitting until your buttocks grow callouses, and all the while your mouth is drooling. From the start they sit in the utter darkness in the belly of the primordial Buddha and ignorantly say they are sitting in meditation conserving this attainment. At such times, there is still desire there! Have you not read the saying, ‘When independent and unimpassioned, you yourself are Buddha’! An ancient remarked, ‘If you poison the milk, even clarified butter is deadly.’ This is not something you attain by hearing, not something you reach or abide in, not something in your forms; don’t misperceive what is merely a gate or a door, for that will cheat you on the last day of your life, leaving you in utter chaos, of no help to you at all. What you should do is avoid artificialities and concocted eccentricities: just take care of your physical needs, passing the time according to your place in life. Do not disturb social order, pretentiously identifying yourself as one who follows the Path.
own comment: most likely this was splashed here before, but still a good reminder, occasionally, for how any particular practice can turn one's butt into hard wood with no realization in return, just maybe another conceptualized version of Me.
The ease with which he pinpoints the futility of some particular practice in the lack of true realization, dubbed by absolutely no self gratification in case of ... is heartbreakingly funny.
Question: can anyone explain, if there is some particular meaning in "the belly of the primordial Buddha"? It is clear contextually, but out of context it eludes any clear definition (call me stupid if that's the case ... no one will mind)
Submitted January 23, 2020 at 03:11PM by robeewankenobee https://ift.tt/2NRS8QZ
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