People are often hindered by environmental phenomena from perceiving mind, and by individual events from perceiving underlying principles; so they often try to escape from environmental phenomena in order to steal their minds or to obscure events and order to retain their grasp of principles. They do not realize that this is merely to obscure phenomena with mind, events with principles. Just let your minds become void and environmental phenomena will void themselves; let principles cease to stir and events will cease steering of themselves. Do not employ mind in this perverted way.
Many people are afraid to empty their minds lest they may plunge into the void. They do not know that their own mind is the void. The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.
Commentary: Sometimes I find myself splitting cats in two without trying. I get a lot of e-mails that express their moral outrage and disapproval of me cutting cats. But why do words simply cause trolls to be hindered by environmental phenomena? You would think this shouldn't be an issue for a Zen Master, right? It's a total amateur move!
Submitted June 16, 2020 at 12:02AM by bulldogeyes https://ift.tt/2V2Jtin
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