posted July 03, 2006 04:20 PM         

Its not difficult to discover your Buddha Mind
But just dont try to search for it.
Cease accepting and rejecting possible places
Where you think it can be found
And it will appear before you.

Be warned! The slightest exercise of preference
Will open a gulf as wide and deep
as the space between heaven and earth.

If you want to encounter your Buddha Mind
Dont have opinions about anything.
Opinions produce argument
And contentiousness is a disease of the mind.

Plunge into the depths.
Stillness is deep. Theres nothing profound in shallow waters.
The Buddha Mind is perfect and it encompasses the universe.
It lacks nothing and has nothing in excess.
If you think that you can choose between its parts
Youll miss its very essence.

Dont cling to externals, the opposite things,
the things that exist as relative.
Accept them all impartially
And you wont have to waste time in pointless choosing.

Judgments and discriminations block the flow
and stir the passions.
They roil the mind that needs stillness and peace.
If you go from either-or, this and that,
or any of the countless opposites,
Youll miss the whole, the One.
Following an opposite youll be led astray,
away from the balancing center.
How can you hope to gain the One?

To decide what is, is to determine whats not.
But determining whats not can occupy you
so that it becomes what is.
The more you talk and think. the farther away you get.
Cease talking and thinking and youll find it everywhere.

If you let all things return to their source, thats fine.
But if you stop to think that this is your goal
And that this is what success depends upon
And strive and strive instead of simply letting go,
You wont be doing Zen.
The moment that you start discriminating and preferring
you miss the mark.
Seeking the real is a false view
which should also be abandoned.
Just let go. Cease searching and choosing.
Decisions give rise to confusions
and in confusion where can a mind go?

All the opposing pairs come from the One Great Buddha Mind.
Accept the pairs with gentle resignation.
The Buddha Mind stays calm and still,
Keep your mind within it and nothing can disturb you.
The harmless and the harmful cease to exist.
Subjects when disengaged from their objects vanish
Just as surely as objects,
when disengaged from their subjects, vanish too.
Each depends on the existence of the other.
Understand this duality and youll see
that both issue from the Void of the Absolute.

The Ground of all Being contains all the opposites.
From the One, all things originate.
What a waste of time to choose between coarse and fine.
Since the Great Mind gives birth to all things,
Embrace them all and let your prejudices die.

To realize the Great Mind be neither hesitant nor eager.
If you try to grasp it, youll cling to air
and fall into the way of heretics.
Where is the Great Dao? Can you lay It down?
Will It stay or go?
Is It not everywhere waiting for you
to unite your nature with Its nature
and become as trouble free as It is?

Dont tire your mind by worrying about what is real
and what isnt,
About what to accept and what to reject.
If you want to know the One,
let your senses experience what comes your way,
But dont be swayed and dont involve yourself in what comes.
The wise man acts without emotion
and seems not to be acting at all.
The ignorant man lets his emotions get involved.
The wise man knows that all things are part of the One.
The ignorant man sees differences everywhere.

All things are the same at their core
but clinging to one and discarding another
Is living in illusion.
A mind is not a fit judge of itself.
It is prejudiced in its own favor or disfavor.
It cannot see anything objectively.

Bodhi is far beyond all notions of good and evil,
beyond all the pairs of opposites.
Daydreams are illusions and flowers in the sky never bloom.
They are figments of the imagination
and not worth your consideration.
Profit and Loss, right and wrong, coarse and fine.
Let them all go.
Stay awake. Keep your eyes open.
Your daydreams will disappear.
If you do not make judgments, everything will be
exactly as it is supposed to be.

Deep is the Tathagatas wisdom,
Lofty and beyond all illusions.
This is the One to which all things return
provided you do not separate them,
keeping some and casting others away.
Where can you put them anyway?
All things are within the One.
There is no outside.

The Ultimate has no pattern, no duality,
and is never partial.
Trust in this. Keep your faith strong.
When you lay down all distinctions theres nothing left
but Mind that is now pure, that radiates wisdom,
and is never tired.

When Mind passes beyond discriminations
Thoughts and feelings cannot plumb its depths.
The state is absolute and free.
There is neither self nor other.
You will be aware only that you are part of the One.
Everything is inside and nothing is outside.

posted July 03, 2006 07:51 PM         

MUUU!!

posted July 04, 2006 12:19 AM         

Osho recommended it.
It was one of his favorites,
along with Sanai's
"The Walled Garden of Truth",
one of my own favorites.

posted July 04, 2006 11:43 PM         

what do you think?

posted July 05, 2006 12:01 AM         

Our Soul is unique..and individual..and an image of God source..still separate, but connected..for we have been doing this for billions of years. ...

posted July 05, 2006 12:46 AM         

Thanks SunShine. ...

posted July 05, 2006 06:48 PM         

quote:

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hehe..nothing..has to be something..or we wouldn't be here discussing this. ...

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lotusheart.....

there is, as you say, "that which is", and "that which is not" duality that makes up the tension between the positive and negative furies......in the universe of human perception.......

furthermore, there is a duality within each of these.....for instance "that which is not" (or zero), is a tension between space and time.......

while within the field of "that which is" (or the number one) there are also opposites, like left and right hands, male and female......

the universe of perception is dualistic in nature.....but there is a state of mind that transcends that duality.......thats what Seng T'san was getting at.....

the japanese zen way gives it its own term as part of a koan......they call it mu....it is not nothingness, the opposite of existence....it is one step closer to the source......beyond the duality of father and mother.......

posted July 06, 2006 03:04 AM         

( synchronicity abounds)

posted July 06, 2006 01:01 PM         

sunshine9,

"Have you ever had a past-life reading done, HSC? Methinks you must have had some Eastern one/s, to be drawn to these teachings!"

I have had psychics tell me about visions of me as a shaman or medicine man, which is said to explain my present attraction to psychedelic experiences, and, supposedly, I healed A LOT of people with my concoctions, and should expect to encounter many "wounded birds" in this life, whom I have healed in the past (which would make sense, because I do tend to attract "wounded birds"). Also, a vision of me as a monk - part of a community of monks, but living apart from the others, in a cave, on a mountainside, caring for, and communicating with, the animals (which makes sense, because I have always felt a mysterious connection with animals), and tending the garden, growing medicinal herbs and such. Another told me I had been a Kabbalist. I ordered one of those Edgar Cayce astrological past-life readings, and it suggested possible lives in the east, probably lives during/around the time of Christ and in ancient Egypt, and almost definitely lives in Atlantis (Uranus conjunct sun/venus/mc, sextile asc and asc ruling saturn, and moon in Aqaurius), as a priest and/or artist.

No specific references to the Far East, though.
I've also been called a "starseed".

hsc

posted July 06, 2006 01:08 PM         

that's some really good stuff!
Keep up the Good Work..you are AweSOme!

posted July 06, 2006 01:17 PM         

Boy, you are Shining so brightly too, today..
I don't know..but something is in the air, hehe

I feel so much LOve and Light..My Heart is on Fire..and my Mind..Heart Flames..from the Flowers Center..Amazing..

posted July 07, 2006 01:22 PM         

I wonder if you read it in Osho Zen. I have that one but havent fully read it yet.

"The more you talk and think. the farther away you get.
Cease talking and thinking and youll find it everywhere.

All the opposing pairs come from the One Great Buddha Mind.
Accept the pairs with gentle resignation.
The Buddha Mind stays calm and still,
Keep your mind within it and nothing can disturb you.
The harmless and the harmful cease to exist.
Subjects when disengaged from their objects vanish
Just as surely as objects,
when disengaged from their subjects, vanish too.
Each depends on the existence of the other.
Understand this duality and youll see
that both issue from the Void of the Absolute.

Dont tire your mind by worrying about what is real
and what isnt,
About what to accept and what to reject.
If you want to know the One,
let your senses experience what comes your way,
But dont be swayed and dont involve yourself in what comes.
The wise man acts without emotion
and seems not to be acting at all.
The ignorant man lets his emotions get involved.
The wise man knows that all things are part of the One.
The ignorant man sees differences everywhere.

All things are the same at their core
but clinging to one and discarding another
Is living in illusion.
A mind is not a fit judge of itself.
It is prejudiced in its own favor or disfavor.
It cannot see anything objectively.

*nods

posted July 07, 2006 10:12 PM         

I read Osho's recommendation online, some talk he gave about the various teachings of the masters, or something.

There is an Osho group on myspace.
http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupID=100216935&Mytoken=12DCEA94-1DBB-4050-B07E245040CA8A8C1177608875

and somebody put up a profile for him:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=52891938

the pics are cool.
talk about charisma.

posted July 10, 2006 01:15 PM         

I have to get to work on a myspace. I want to learn htlm first.

posted July 10, 2006 05:20 PM         

Don't be a stranger.

hsc