Any thought apart from this truth is entirely a wrong thought.

If you students of the Way desire knowledge of this great mystery, only avoid attachment to any single thing beyond Mind.

To say that the real Dharmakäya of the Buddha resembles the Void is another way of saying that the Dharmakäya is the Void and that the Void is the Dharmakäya.

People often claim that the Dharmakaya is in the Void and that the Void contains the Dharmakaya, not realizing that they are one and the same.

But if you define the Void as something existing, then it is not the Dharmakaya; and if you define the Dharmakäya as some thing existing, then it is not the Void.

Only refrain from any objective conception of the Void; then it is the Dharmakaya: and, if only you refrain from any objective conception of the Dharmakäya, why, then it is the Void.

These two do not differ from each other, nor is there any difference between sentient beings and Buddhas, or between sarisära and Nirväna, or between delusion and Bodhi.

When all such forms are abandoned, there is the Buddha.

Ordinary people look to their surroundings, while followers of the Way look to Mind, but the true Dharma is to forget them both.

The former is easy enough, the latter very difficult.

Men are afraid to forget their minds, fearing to fall through the Void with nothing to stay their fall.

They do not know that the Void is not really void, but the realm of the real Dharma.

This spiritually enlightening nature is as ancient as the Void, subject to birth nor to destruction, neither existing nor not existing, neither impure nor pure, neither clamorous nor silent, neither old nor young, occupying no space, having neither inside nor outside, size nor form, colour nor sound.

It can not be looked for or sought, comprehended by wisdom or knowledge, explained in words, contacted materially or reached by meritorious achievement.

All the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, together with all wriggling things possessed of life, share in this great Nirvänic nature.

This nature is Mind; Mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the Dharma.

Any thought apart from this truth is entirely a wrong thought.

You cannot use Mind to seek Mind, the Buddha to seek the Buddha, or the Dharma to seek the Dharma.

So you students of the Way should immediately refrain from conceptual thought.

Let a tacit understanding be all! Any mental process must lead to error.

There is just a transmission of Mind with Mind.

This is the proper view to hold.

Be careful not to look outwards to material surroundings.

To mistake material surroundings for Mind is to mistake a thief for your son.

^{Huang Po the Chun Chou Record #14}

Huang Po generously describes the only thought you should hold before realization.

Some apply Mu as an expression of the rejection of the applicability of thought and some a steady doubt to all that appears.

Huang Po said you should attach to Mind and nothing else; when form and mind are both forgotten there is the Buddha.

How generous, thanks Huang Po!

AMA.

Submitted February 05, 2022 at 10:31PM by NothingIsForgotten https://ift.tt/48dFvIO