When you are looking inward...there is no seeing subject. Some people swallow this in one gulp, so their eye of insight opens wide and they immediately arrive at their homeland.
How can people nowadays reach the point where there is no seeing and no hearing? Everything is always there; you see people, houses, and all sorts of forms, like boiling water bubbling.
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Those who attain enlightenment do not see walking when they walk, and do not see sitting when they sit. That is why the Buddha said, “The eyes seeing forms is equivalent to blindness; the ears hearing sounds is equivalent to deafness.”...What we see and hear is all equivalent to an echo. It is like seeing all sorts of things in a dream— is there all that when you wake up?
Foyan
THIS IS SO PAINFULLY SUBTLE. If I am asked about it I have nothing to say, because there's nothing to say about it. To speak is to miss it. If I ask myself if I've seen it, it's already gone. If I try to catch it, I've let it get out of reach.
The urge in me is to see the one who sees it and then embody that, but that one is nowhere to be found. I can observe the one seeking the observer, but then I'm not looking at anything.
Just writing this I'm ready to go smack my head against the wall.
Submitted August 24, 2020 at 03:43PM by surupamaerl https://ift.tt/3hoIFxp
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