Wednesday, 14 September 2016

From Ikkyu's Commentary on the Heart Sutra

Maha means "big". If you want to know big mind, you must first become free from your small mind. The small mind makes deluded distinctions. With this mind, you separate yourself and others, Buddhas and sentient beings. You divide existence from non existence, delusion from enlightenment, right from wrong, and wholesome from unwholesome. This is small mind.

If you become free from small mind, there will be no distinction between Buddha's and sentient beings, existence and non existence, delusion and enlightenment; they will all be equal, and there will be no more distinctions. This is called big mind. It is just like empty sky that is boundless. This is the original nature intrinsic to all of us sentient beings.



Submitted September 14, 2016 at 06:05PM by KeyserSozen http://ift.tt/2cmjDCJ

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