Every problem is a mundane problem.
Foyan says:
There is something in each of you that you will only be able to perceive when you turn around. So how does one turn around? By nonseeking seeking, seeking without seeking. This is precisely what people find hard to deal with or get into. How can you seek if you are not seeking? How can you not seek if you are seeking? If you only seek, how is that different from pursuing sounds and chasing forms? If you do not seek at all, how are you different from inert matter?
What a garbled mess to the uninitiated! All my study and I can only see this as through a scanner darkly. Foyan instructs:
You must seek, and yet without seeking; not seek, yet still seek. If you can manage to penetrate this, you will then manage to harmonize seeking and nonseeking. So it is said, “Nonseeking nonseeking— the body of reality is perfectly quiescent. Seeking seeking— responsive function does not miss. Seeking without seeking, nonseeking seeking— objects and cognition merge, substance and function are one.” ...Students must be able to turn around and search all the way through in this way before they can attain realization.
Sitting for sitting is new concept to me. I've been tripping over my own feet looking for enlightenment for a long time.
Submitted September 15, 2020 at 07:45PM by surupamaerl https://ift.tt/33zuuQp
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