There are no phenomena outside mind; thus things can be understood.
There is no mind outside phenomena; thus mind can be comprehended.
Comprehensible, understandable, mind and phenomena fulfil the aim. Fulfil the aim, and everything is the aim; make mind complete, and every state of mind is mindless. Since there is no mind in mind, you go directly to the source. When you find the source, when you manifest a great body, it fills space; and when you manifest a small body, not an atom is established.
How is it when not an atom is established?
silence in the assembly
One drop of ink in two places completes a dragon.
Master Huanglong Xin, Treasury 461
An ink drop in two places and the dragon gets eyes to see?
Would anyone here please disagree with the following:
The ebb and flow of mind and phenomena are one principle. Without phenomena, there is nothing to get hold of. Phenomena have no substance, like an 🍦 held in a dream. This principle is the only reality, the suchness in front of us right now. Turn away from seeing this pure inter-nature of mind and phenomena, and you get trapped in distinctions or produce more illusions taking you further from the source, ultimately trapping you. Not trapping oneself but harmonising with the direct expression of mind as it arises, one walks free. Seeing phenomena and mind clearly, two dots drawn from a single drop, you be 🐲
Submitted October 20, 2020 at 03:58PM by Coinionaire https://ift.tt/31r6jmL
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