Develop a mind that functions freely depending on nothing whatsoever….
The Moon Calling
The Practice of True Reality
- The practice of true reality is…to sit serenely in silent study of the self (all the afflictions, desires, attachments, tendencies and obscurations of the ego).
- When you have fathomed, plumbed and probed this practice, you cannot be turned around by external causes and conditions.
- This empty, wide-open mind (Self) is subtly and correctly illuminating. (Beyond mind, beyond mentall formations)
- Spacious and content, without confusion from inner thoughts of grasping, effectively overcome habitual behavior and realize the self that is not possessed by emotions.
- You must be broad-minded, whole without relying on others.
- Such upright independent spirit can begin not to pursue degrading situations. (Requires conviction, determination, discrimination etc.)
- Here you can rest and become clean, pure, and lucid. (Abiding in the clear, circle of brightness)
- Bright and penetrating, you can immediately return, accord, and respond to deal with events. Resonse vs reaction)
- Everything is unhindered, clouds gracefully floating up to the peaks, the moonlight glitteringly flowing down mountain streams.
- The entire place is brightly illumined and spiritually transformed, totally unobstructed and clearly manifesting responsive interaction like box and lid or arrowpoints [meeting)?
- Continuing, cultivate and nourish yourself to enact maturity and achieve stability.
- If you accord everywhere with thorough clarity and cut off sharp corners without dependence on doctrines, like the white bull or wildcat [helping to arouse wonder], you can be called a complete person.
- So, we hear that this is how one on the way of non-mind acts, but before realizing non-mind we still have great hardship.
Cultivating the Empty Field; Leighton, Taigen D.
Author: Fashi Lao Yue
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