Use mind or be aware

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Conceptual analysis has no place in the domain of the spirit, but

awareness is a must.

Awareness,Mindulness in Zen

Insight and Presence in Sufism

are all used with the same meaning.

In Chuang Tzu it is called fasting of the heart

 

Yen Hui: What is fasting of the heart?

 

Confucius: The goal of fasting is inner unity

this means hearing, but not with the ear;

hearing, but not with the understanding;

hearing with the spirit, with your whole being.

The hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one

faculty, to the ear or to the mind.

Hence, it demands the emptiness of all faculties.

And when the faculties are empty, then the whole

being listens.

There is then a direct grasp of what is right there

before you that can never be heard with the ear or

understood with the mind.

Fasting of the heart empties the faculties, frees you

from the limitations and from preoccupations.

Fasting of the heart begets unity and freedom.

 

Yen Hui: I see. What was standing in my way was my own self-

awareness. If I can begin this fasting of the heart,

self-awareness will vanish.

 

What was said in the previous daialogue between Yen Hui and

Confucius is a description of the Insight, Awareness, Mindfulness,

that discards man's ego or man's self-awareness. When the insight is

fully operational in place of ego, life is re-investigated and is

rediscoverd to be nothing but the Oneness of God or the Oneness of

Experience or reflects Absolute Consciousness.

 

hsin