Thoughts not arising is called “sitting.” One's nature remaining motionless is called “chan.” Seeing objects and not giving rise to thought is called “nonproduction.” Nonproduction is called “no-thought.” No-thought is called “liberation.” - Hyujeong

The title quote is essentially what Bankei says when he says, "As for zazen, since za (sitting) is the Buddha Mind's sitting at ease, whilst Zen (meditation) is another name for Buddha Mind, the Buddha Mind's sitting at ease is what is meant by zazen."

This is a Thomas Cleary scholarship great from Zen and the Art of Insight, which helps explain my OP quote:

"Ignorant people produce thought in reference to the existence of an object. Thus a bodhisattva, while also discerning an object, discerns the arising of thought. Why does thought arise? A bodhisattva observes that this thought is naturally clear, so it occurs to the bodhisattva that the thought arises relative to the object. Thoroughly knowing the object, one does not produce thought, nor yet extinguish thought. That thought occurs to the bodhisattva as clear, unafflicted, pleasant, perfectly pure.

The bodhisattva stabilized in the nonproduction of thought does not produce anything or destroy anything. This is the thorough knowledge of nonproduction of thought of the bodhisattva practicing perfect insight. It does not occur to one practicing thus, "I am practicing perfect insight," "Here I practice perfect insight," "Hereby I practice perfect insight," or "Hence I practice perfect insight," or "Perfect insight is hereby," or "Perfect insight pertains to this," then one is not practicing perfect insight. So one does not even observe or grasp that perfect insight, or think, "I am practicing perfect insight," but actually applies perfect insight.

Submitted July 26, 2017 at 09:25PM by Dillon123 http://ift.tt/2v8BODI