Subtle Nature

Master Puming of Qingliang said to an assembly,

The founder's teaching of mind is all-pervasive, constant through all time. It is like this naturally. The truth as is is spontaneously realized without depending on cultivation, fulfilled of itself without depending on attainment. Totally present, it is called the immovable ground. Even when in use it is not existent; when unused, it is not nonexistent. The subtle essence is profoundly still, constant and unchanging. The essence is combined with subtle function, fully responsive without contrivance, reflecting infinite forms and features interacting.

Mind has no nature of its own; it manifests fully in contact with phenomena. Without stirring from the site of enlightenment it is omnipresent in all worlds. For the moment turn attention around to this realm; if you turn away from awareness to get involved in sense objects, you mistakenly construe reflected phenomena.

The meaning of this concern is like a royal highway; if you travel on it, that's it, but even if you don't travel on it, you're still on the road.

A discourse like this is still an expression of teaching method. If we were to bring out the vehicle of the aim, all we could do would be to disperse at once.

Let me say that last part again.

If we were to bring out the vehicle of the aim, all we could do would be to disperse at once.

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questions and answers

discrimination and time

reasoning and rhyme

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old is new again

inspiration ink and pen

now and everywhen

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with no compunction

the essence and the function

void and conjunction

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if you turn away from awareness to get involved in sense objects, you mistakenly construe reflected phenomena.

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Submitted April 11, 2023 at 08:54PM by eggo https://ift.tt/GkaoVTm