All Buddhas and all sentient beings are no different from the One Mind. In this One Mind there is neither arising nor ceasing, no name or form, no long or short, no large or small, and neither existence nor non-existence. It transcends all limitations of name, word and relativity, and it is as boundless as the great void. Giving rise to thought is erroneous, and any speculation about it with our ordinary faculties is inapplicable, irrelevant and inaccurate. Only Mind is Buddha, and Buddhas and sentient beings are not different. All sentient beings grasp form and search outside themselves. Using Buddha to seek Buddha, they thus use mind to seek Mind. Practicing in this manner even until the end of the kalpa, they cannot attain the fruit. However, when thinking and discrimination suddenly halt, the Buddhas appear.
Upon first reading of the mind transmission, this is what was understood by my perception. Anyone have anything else?
"all buddhas and sentient beings are no different from the one mind".
Mind and phenomena exist in a state of pure potential before coming into form. This state is the one mind or it would not be possible for beings to share the nature of mind. The buddha is the state of awareness before the formulation of thought or concepts. Like a mirror in an empty room it reflects the emptiness of original mind or state of pure potentiality. When there is no buddha then mind disappears also leaving only this state.
"In this One Mind there is neither arising nor ceasing, no name or form, no long or short, no large or small, and neither existence nor non-existence. It transcends all limitations of name, word and relativity, and it is as boundless as the great void."
This state of pure potential contains all duality and paradox. Things don't come or go neither can they exist or not exist. That is why there can be no defining characteristics.
"Giving rise to thought is erroneous, and any speculation about it with our ordinary faculties is inapplicable, irrelevant and inaccurate. Only Mind is Buddha, and Buddhas and sentient beings are not different".
To think about it is to miss the point because thought operates in duality. In the non-dual state there is no one to find anything, nothing to be found. When a thought arises into duality existence is born, takes form, is observed, judged either good or bad, is resisted or attached to, then leaves for the next form. Out of cognition all these forms of past, present, and future, ideas of self/other come into being. When thought leaves, existence falls back into this state of pure potentiality. The forms that the state of pure potential took were only real in our perception of them. They simply caused delusion by taking different forms and forgetting of the original state before thought.
"All sentient beings grasp form and search outside themselves. Using Buddha to seek Buddha, they thus use mind to seek Mind. Practicing in this manner even until the end of the kalpa, they cannot attain the fruit. However, when thinking and discrimination suddenly halt, the Buddhas appear".
Even now reading these words are there traces of an ego looking for something in them that can only be seen by looking in? Why do we read sutras and zen stories if there is nothing to be attained? We go on day in and day out looking for the glasses that are right on our noses. Awareness is already here, what else is there than being in tune with the original mind?
Submitted January 01, 2019 at 01:26AM by Theslowcosby777 http://bit.ly/2BSbizq
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