This is a direct pointing and a question to examine by stepping back from your own opinions.
I'll give you the first answer, experience itself!
AKA Buddha-nature.
How that unfolds further under examination is left as an exercise for the reader.
Ultimately the actual answer is only revealed directly to the reader.
To witness directly is to have the single unshakable result reached by all who arrive.
And do you know they are drawn up by your non discriminatory mind? Like an artist drawing all sorts of pictures, both pretty and ugly, the mind depicts forms, feelings, perceptions, abstract patterns, and consciousnesses; it depicts human societies and paradises. When it is drawing these pictures, it does not borrow the power of another; there is no discrimination between the artist and the artwork. It is because of not realizing this that you conceive various opinions, having views of yourself and views of other people, creating your own fair and foul.
So it is said, "An artist draws a picture of hell, with countless sorts of hideous forms. On setting aside the brush to look it over, it's bone-chilling, really hair-raising." But if you know it's a drawing, what is there to fear?
~Foyan
The Master said: Only when your minds cease dwelling upon anything whatsoever will you come to an understanding of the true way of Zen. I may express it thus -- the way of the Buddhas flourishes in a mind utterly freed from conceptual thought processes, while discrimination between this and that gives birth to a legion of demons!
Finally, remember that from first to last not even the smallest grain of anything perceptible has ever existed or ever will exist.
~Huang Po
諸佛與一切眾生。
Various Buddhas with all sentient beings.
唯是一心。
Only is One Mind.
更無別法。
There is no other way.
~Hsin Hsin Ming
The title question was asked by someone in passing in another thread; I thought it was worth another look.
Thoughts?
Submitted September 10, 2020 at 08:18PM by NothingIsForgotten https://ift.tt/2ZpnTGQ
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