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Don't say what is speaking right now is It; that's not quite right. As soon as there is an affirmation, then there is a denial. That is the reason why it is said, that no verbal expressions correspond to this reality.
What you must do is live in harmony with it. This matter is not in another; but are you in tune with it? And if you are in tune, in tune with whom?
If you say you are in tune with the ancients, the ancients are gone. If you say you are in tune with a teacher, a teacher has no connection with you.
This is why the sages compassionately told us to tune into the source of our own minds. Now tell me, what is the source of mind, to which one tunes in on one's own?
If you mindfully try to tune into mind, you will definitely be unable to tune in. You have to tune in with mindless mind.
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T. O. M's comment.
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This page from Foyans book is awesome.. I'm getting more if an affinity with his writing.
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Tune in to the source of your own mind.. But don't do it mindfully.. That's just searching, looking for a donkey while riding an ass..
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Also, here is another fine example of a Zen master warning us of the limitations of words.. And yes, of course Foyan is using words, but he is using them as a pointer only, in order for you to look past the words, look past the Master, past the whole cannon of literature and past r/zen to the source of your mind..
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Words aren't it.. For a very long time now I've had a real feeling that talk is bullshit, people talk and talk and talk.. At a dinner, with family or friends, people hate silence, and prefer small talk... Verbal expressions that can never correspond to this reality..
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I am finding, more and more that I prefer being by myself.. Out in the countryside and far from the madding crowd.. Why is that? Is this solitude when we are most in contact with this mindless mind?
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If you haven't already, then check out Foyan.
Submitted July 25, 2022 at 12:37PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/A4hL0cb
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