Not The OP That Was Promised

1. Expedient methods are referred to as yellow leaves passed around as gold to stop small children from crying, or like a thorn to remove a thorn.

2. If you understand that words are not it, then there is nothing to them. There is no need to follow them this way and that way.

3. The whole effort is directed towards illuminating the source. If words do not negate the very basis of thought, they miss the target and become like shackles.

4. Before latching on to the meaning, stop! See this clearly. Ordinarily, the mind follows thought after thought like a barking dog. This mind ... where is it?

5. The following of thought after thought is a natural occurrence. Nothing is out of place after all. But as long as thoughts are taken as having substance, one is sure to be led by them.

6. Fighting fire with fire, Huineng blows the candle out in an instant:

From the first not a thing is.

Submitted October 18, 2020 at 06:23AM by GhostC1pher https://ift.tt/37fS0VS