Meditation will lead to seeing the self nature.

Through cross legged sitting Dhyana, in the end you will necessarily see the original nature.

Inevitably you will fuse and purify mind.

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The above text is taken from The Bodhidharma Anthology and is attributed to Bodhidarma. Text no. 3. First letter.

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Dhyana = In the oldest texts of Buddhism, dhyāna or jhāna is a component of the training of the mind, commonly translated as meditation, to withdraw the mind from the automatic responses to sense-impressions, and leading to a "state of perfect equanimity and awareness." 

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T. O. M's comment.

Need I say more? Bodhidarma advocates sitting Dhyana ( Meditation) for seeing the self nature..

As we all knew, he wasn't messing around with 7 years of wall gazing after all..

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I've reposted this after the mods did a crafty number and deleted my first post without so much as a hint of a warning.

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I feel like I must also attach this excellent comment from another user, which goes on to further show Bodhidharma's position on meditation.

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" He also (according to the Transmission of the Lamp) was quite fond of the Lankavatara Sutra.

From the Lankavatara (the speaker is the Buddha):

"Therefore, Mahamati, let those disciples who wish to realize Noble Wisdom by following the Tathagata Vehicle desist from all discrimination and erroneous reasoning...and exercise themselves in the discipline of dhyana that leads to the realization of Noble Wisdom.

To practice dhyana, the earnest disciple should retire to a quiet and solitary place, remembering that life-long habits of discriminative thinking cannot be broken off easily nor quickly" (Ch. VII: "Self-realization")

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However, we are also warned about those who practice dhyana without understanding its purpose-- for those ignorant ones who are still thinking dualistically and in terms of self and other, it becomes "'still-sitting' with vacant minds."

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Thanks to the user who shall now remain nameless for the book recommendation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhidharma

Submitted May 21, 2022 at 09:54AM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/gMb1IAu