Sunday, 6 January 2019

Daman Hongren (601-674) : With great care keep your self calm, moderate your sensory activity, and attentively view the mind that is the source of all phenomena.

With great care keep your self calm, moderate your sensory activity, and attentively view the mind that is the source of all phenomena.

Make your body and mind perfectly empty and peaceful, without any discriminative thinking at all. Sit properly with the body erect. Regulate the breath and concentrate the mind so it is not within you, not outside of you, and not in any location in between. Do this carefully but naturally. View your own consciousness tranquilly and attentively, so you can see how it is always moving, like flowing water or a glittering mirage. After you have perceived this consciousness, simply continue to observe it gently and naturally, without getting fixed anywhere inside or outside of yourself. Do this calmly and attentively until its fluctuations dissolve into peaceful stability. This flowing consciousness will disappear like a gust of wind. When this consciousness disappears, all illusions disappear along with it...one's own mind becomes peacefully stable, and pure. I cannot describe it any further.



Submitted January 06, 2019 at 08:36PM by ZaoPing http://bit.ly/2GWzJkN

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