This is a possible continuation from part 16.
Section XVII
"If the mind reveres something, it must despite something. If the mind affirms something, it must negate something. If the mind takes a single thing to be good, then all things are not good. If the mind is intimate with a single thing, then all things become its rival. The mind does not rest on material nor does it rest on the immaterial. It does not rest on rest, nor does it rest on non-rest. If the mind rests on something it will not escape its bondage. If the mind does something somewhere, then it is bound. If mind values a phenomenon that phenomenon can detain you. If the mind esteems a single phenomenon, the mind must contemn something.
If one grasps at the meaning of the sutras and sastras one certainly will not revere the understanding thereof. But when there is an understanding of something, the mind is subject to something. If the mind is subject to something then it is bound. A sutra says "One does not obtain Nirvana through the methods of inferior, medium and superior." The mind, despite being in the deluded state does not make an undeluded interpretation. Whenever the mind arises, rely on the phenomena [dharma] to observe from where it arises. If the mind discriminates, then immediately rely on the phenomena [dharma] to observe where it discriminates. If there is greed, anger, or inversion, then rely on the phenomena [dharma] to observe from where they arise.
Not seeing a place for these to arise is the practice of the way. If one does not discriminate between things, this is also the practice of the way.
But if the mind arises, examine it, and manage it by relying on the phenomena [dharma]."
This concludes section XVII
The Long Scroll Parts: [1], [2], [3 and 4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17]
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