"To exert yourselves in religious practice, trying to produce enlightenment by doing religious practices and zazen, is all wrong too.
There's no difference between the mind of all the buddhas and the Buddha Mind of each one of you.
But by wanting to realize enlightenment, you create a duality between the one who realizes enlightenment and what it is that's being realized.
When you cherish even the smallest desire to realize enlightenment, right away you leave behind the realm of the Unborn and go against the Buddha Mind.
This Buddha Mind you have from your parents innately is one alone—not two, not three!"
(Haskel)
What is this 'Enlightenment' you say you want?
What does it look like to you?
Try being honest about it. What would change about who you are, what you do, how you feel and how you think...when and if you 'achieved' it? What is it that you want so badly out of it?
If you try to be clever and say "I already have it" or "It is right here, right now", yet still strive for it, you are just a person pretending to have lost or never found what he or she has always had.
Is that game fun for you? Is that really how you wish to spend your time?
Submitted November 05, 2018 at 06:08PM by Pikkko https://ift.tt/2RCF0Pg
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