Guest guest Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 Seasons Greetings to all.... NAMASTE 54. …A: My advice to you is to rid yourselves of all your previous ideas about studying MIND or perceiving it. When you are rid of them, you will no longer lose yourselves amid sophistries. Regard the process exactly as you would regard the shoveling of dung. Yes, my advice is to give up all indulgence in conceptual thought and intellectual processes. When such things no longer trouble you, you will unfailingly reach Supreme Enlightenment. On no account make a distinction between the Absolute and the sentient world. …you must make no distinctions of any kind. 55. Q: But how can we prevent ourselves from falling into the error of making distinctions between this and that? A: By realizing that, though you eat the whole day through, no single grain has passed your lips; and that a day’s journey has not taken you a single step forward – also by uniformly abstaining from such notions as “self” and “other”. Do not permit the events of your daily lives to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of “A Liberated One.” Never allow yourselves to mistake outward appearance for reality. Avoid the error of thinking in terms of past, present and future. The past has gone; the present is a fleeting moment; the future is not yet to come. When you practice mind-control, sit in the proper position, stay perfectly tranquil, and do not permit the least movement of your minds to disturb you. This alone is what is called liberation. Ah, be diligent! Be diligent! Of a thousand or ten thousand attempting to enter by this Gate, only three or perhaps five pass through. If you are heedless of my warnings, calamity is sure to follow. 48. Q: Did Dipamkara Buddha attain his intuition of reality within a single five-hundred-year period or not? A: There is no attaining it within such a period. You must never forget that this so-called “attaining” of intuition implies neither a withdrawal from daily life nor a search for Enlightenment. You have just to understand that time-periods have no real existence; hence the attainment of the vital intuition occurs neither within nor without a five-hundred-year period. Q: Is it not possible to attain the omniscience in which all the events of past, present and future are known to us? A: There is absolutely nothing which can be attained. Q: How long is a cycle of five hundred yugas? A: One such period should be ample for you to become a liberated sage. For, when Dipamkara Buddha “attained” his intuitive knowledge of the Dharma, there was not really a grain of anything attainable. 49. Q: The sutras teach that the fettering of passions and illusions produced during millions of kalpas is a sufficient means of obtaining the Dharmakaya, even without going through the stages of being monks. What does this mean? A: If you practice MEANS of attaining Enlightenment for three myriad aeons but without losing your belief in something really attainable, you will still be as many aeons from your goal as there are grains of sand in the Ganges. But if, by a direct perception of the Dharmakaya’s true nature, you grasp it in a flash, you will have reached the highest goal taught in the Three Vehicles. Why? Because the belief that the Dharmakaya can be obtained belongs to the doctrines of those sects which do not understand the truth. Blofeld, John, The Zen Teachings Of Huang Po On The Transmission Of Mind, Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1959 AUM gate gate...... DIPAMKARA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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