“Subhuti, the Realized One says that having self is not having self, yet ordinary people think they have self. Subhuti, the Realized One says ordinary people are not ordinary people, they are called ordinary people.”
Huineng: The self that the Realized One says exists in the inherently pure self of eternity, bliss, selfhood, and purity, not the same as the greedy, ignorant, false, unreal self of ordinary people. Therefore he says that ordinary people think they have self. Those who have self and person are ordinary people, those to whom self and person do not occur are not ordinary people. Those whose minds have fluctuation are ordinary people, whereas those whose minds have no fluctuation are not ordinary people. Those who do not realize the perfection of wisdom are ordinary people; if they realize the perfection of wisdom, then they are not ordinary people. Those who have subject and object in mind are ordinary people, whereas those who have no subject or object in mind are not ordinary people.
- Huineng’s commentary on the diamond sutra
R.S.M. :One who does not fluctuate is said to be “seated”. This is a sitting of the mind not of the body. When you see that there is not a liver of life,that there is no self, yet we call it a self, that is to be seated. So take a seat.
Submitted May 04, 2020 at 08:48PM by royalsaltmerchant https://ift.tt/2W4Mgsd
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