If you doubt this, you'll never see through anything.

I only talk about seeing your nature.

I don't talk about sex simply because you don't see your nature.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

It ends along with your delight in it.

Even if some habits remain, they can't harm you, because your nature is essentially pure.

Despite dwelling in a material body of four elements, your nature is basically pure.

It can't be corrupted.

Your real body is basically pure.

It can't be corrupted.

Your real body has no sensation, no hunger or thirst, no warmth or cold, no sickness, no love or attachment, no pleasure or pain, no good or bad, no shortness or length, no weakness or strength.

Actually, there's nothing here.

It's only because you cling to this material body that things like hunger and thirst, warmth and cold, and sickness appear.

Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death.

You'll transform everything.

You'll possess spiritual powers that can't be obstructed.

And you'll be at peace wherever you are.

If you doubt this, you'll never see through anything.

You're better off doing nothing.

Once you act, you can't avoid the cycle of birth and death.

But once you see your nature, you're a buddha even if you work as a butcher.

Excerpt of the Bloodstream Sermon from Red Pine's The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma.

Once you see your nature, you know you are what is.

All of it and none of it; actually there's nothing here.

AMA.

Submitted July 02, 2022 at 09:49PM by NothingIsForgotten https://ift.tt/SvutVgT