You will overlay Mind with conceptual thought

If you students of the Way do not awake to this Mind substance, you will overlay Mind with conceptual thought, you will seek the Buddha outside yourselves, and you will remain attached to forms, pious practices and so on, all of which are harmful and not at all the way to supreme knowledge. — Huang Po

Like a layer of shit.

Since no bodies possess real form, we speak of phenomena as void; and, since Mind is formless, we speak of the nature of all things as void. Both are formless and both are termed void. Moreover, none of the numerous doctrines has any existence outside your original Mind. All this talk of Bodhi, Nirvana, the Absolute, the Buddha-Nature, Mahayana, Thcravada, Bodhisattvas and so on is like taking autumn leaves for gold. To use the symbol of the closed fist: when it is opened, all beings-both gods and men-will perceive there is not a single thing inside. — Huang Po

What you reading this? What did you gain from Huang Po's teachings?

Know only that you must decide to eschew all symbolizing whatever, for by this eschewal is 'symbolized' the Great Void in which there is neither unity nor multiplicity-that Void which is not really void, that Symbol which is no symbol. — Huang Po

Zero point zero

One thought of your mind produces the three realms and, in accordance with causal conditions and influenced by circumstances, the division into the six dusts takes place. What is lacking in your present responsive activity! In an instant you enter the pure, enter the dirty, enter the Tower of Maitreya, enter the Land of the Th ree Eyes, and everywhere you travel all you see are empty names — Linji Yixuan

Hallucinating flowers in the sky is nice.

Submitted February 20, 2022 at 09:51AM by jiyuunosekai https://ift.tt/PdXwEcF