Huangbo’s Thief

“To mistake your material surroundings as Mind is to take a thief for your son”.

-Huangbo

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This seems fundamentally at odds with the Cypress tree in the yard, or kasyapa’s flower to me. It sounds as though Huangbo is calling for a kind of blocking-out of the world, but that can’t be right. I thought everything in the material world is ultimately a manifestation of our mind and nothing more, in that sense “illusory”. But here he’s explicitly saying nope, it’s not Mind.

Does he simply mean “don’t be attached to the material world”?

Anyone feel like elaborating on this?

Submitted August 31, 2020 at 04:42PM by mortonslast https://ift.tt/2ExfOsz