Intuitive action.

The first nen's intuitive action of looking into a situation is an action of pure attention.

Reflecting upon this pure attention is seeing into one's true nature, and the kensho experience is brought about. However, we are every moment reflecting on ourselves ( and thus are conscious of ourselves) but the kesho experience does not normally occur. Why is this?

The reason is that the third nen, which carries out the reflecting, integrating, and synthesising operations of the mind, and has come to assume the position of representing man's self consciousness itself, is permeated through and through with a utilitarian way of thinking, our consciousness in its ordinary daily life, is wholly occupied by thoughts of what is beneficial, helpful, and useful to us, or what is harmful. This nessecarily causes our cognition of the world to be distorted, we call this state of affairs the deluded, habitual way of consciousness.

It is this, which blocks the intuitive pure cognition of the first nen.

( kensho is ultimately the recognition of one's own pure flowing nature)

Extract from the notes to the blue cliff record. Katsuki Sekida.

Submitted May 28, 2020 at 01:18PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/3cbSNWJ