“Master, my mind is troubled. Will you pacify it for me?”
Bodhidharma said, “Bring me your mind, and I will pacify it.”
The disciple went away and threw himself into meditation in order to comply with this request. Eventually he returned and said, “I have searched for my mind, but I can't find it anywhere.”
And Bodhidharma replied, “There, I have pacified it!”
I've never understood really understood the discussion regarding one's inability to point to any particular thing that "is the self."
I understand "do not attach to the self" or "do not create an arbitrary, conceptual, artificial notion of the self that is permanent or meaningful or worth clinging to," but "there is no self" continues to strike me as sort of unhelpful.
There are two possible reasons for this:
- I already have a firm grasp of this and to me it seems too obvious to be interesting or meaningful.
- I simply do not get it at all.
Any thoughts?
Submitted January 24, 2018 at 06:57AM by pohw http://ift.tt/2rtN4tc
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