True nature and your perception of it are one.

That Nature and your perception of it are one. You cannot use it to see something over and above itself.

because there is nothing to see over or above it.

That Nature and your hearing of it are one. You cannot use it to hear something over and above itself.

Because there is no sound above or beyond it. It's ad infinitum. If there was something above or beyond it that thing would be the true nature.

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If you form a concept of the true nature of anything as being visible or audible, you allow a dharma of distinction to arise.

A distinction between yourself and the true nature as something objective outside yourself.

Let me repeat that the peceived cannot perceive.

e.g. the sound of a bell can't hear the sound of a bell.

Can there, I ask you, be a head attached lo the crown of your head?

Can you be you and not you at the same time?

I will give you an example to make my meaning clearer. Imagine some loose pearls in a bowl, some large globules and some small. Each one is completely unaware of the others and none causes the least obstruction to the rest. During their formation, they did not say: 'Now I am coming into being' : and when they begin to decay, they will not say: 'Now I am decaying.' None of the beings born into the six forms of life through the four kinds of birth are exceptions to this rule.

So how about the bowl and those not born in the six forms of life through the four kinds of birth?

Submitted July 11, 2020 at 06:32PM by Kyuu-bi https://ift.tt/2ZgWQOk