“If students today do not succeed, where is their shortcoming? Their defect is that they do not believe in themselves. If you are unable to believe in yourself [as a vessel of the universal enlightened reality], you go off frantically following various objects, and get turned around by them, so that you have no independence. If you can put to rest the mind that is frantically seeking moment after moment, then you are no different from the buddhas and patriarchs. Do you want to get to know the buddhas and patriarchs? The one right here listening to the Dharma is they. It is because students cannot believe this that they go off frantically seeking outside. All you gain from seeking are just verbal marks of excellence—you will never find the living meaning of the enlightened teachers."
So... What I'd take away from this is that the idea that there is something to do, to seek, to try to enlighten is created and perpetuated by the beliefs (of which in that case the person is probably not aware) that:
a) there is a person
And
b) that person is unenlightened
Thoughts?
Submitted May 19, 2020 at 03:24PM by WreCK_ed https://ift.tt/2LCztXU
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