It is relatively easy to forget sense objects but extremely difficult to forget the mind

It is relatively easy to forget sense objects but extremely difficult to forget the mind. People do not dare to forget the mind because they fear that they will fall into emptiness, where there will be nothing to hold onto. They do not understand that emptiness is originally not empty: it is simply the one true dharma realm, that’s all.

~ Huangbo Xiyun

Excerpt from “A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace”, Seon Master Subul

Edit: A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace: The Zen Teaching of Huangbo with a Modern Commentary - full translation of the same text, originally published: April 30, 2019.

Submitted October 08, 2019 at 12:15PM by mojo-power https://ift.tt/31Xqgjs