On 7/20/2012 1:17 AM, 覺妙精明 （JMJM） wrote:
True. "Understanding" is for the conscious mind and not our spirit.
Pure spirit "sees" everything just as is. Pure spirit functions
according to the nature of Chan, or Buddha nature if we prefer.
When we indulge ourselves in the past (i.e. our past glories, what
year I did what), or in form (i.e. quoting the sutra, life's
phenomena), then we are no longer in the present.
Where does all this appear? When?
When we are no longer in the present, our spirit no longer functions.
Only our physical self does.
Where is this physical self? When does it appear?
For last few months, there are much attachment to the experience, to
the words, to memoirs, to the views, pleasurable perhaps. Pure
spirit? No.
Where is this pure spirit?
That's when suffering arises.
Where is this suffering?
When we are in the present, there is "no form", going "no where" and
we are "nobody".
When else presents but the present, as presence of mind (such as it
appears)?
Then we are in the infinite and timeless.
Otherwise? There is no otherwise to be found.
Formless is timeless is infinite. Without boundaries, there is no way to
distinguish these. These cannot be found to be other than mind. Such
distinctions arise as mind. Formless, timeless, infinite....
Ordinary mind makes distinctions of here and there, now and then, all
the 10,000 things. Buddha mind recognizes this to be the nature of
ordinary mind, realizing such forms as emptiness/no-mind. Thus
Realized/Original/Buddha mind is indistinguishable from ordinary mind.
To 'be present' could not be simpler. No one attains presence, no one
escapes presence. No form of effort/understanding leads to realization,
no forms prevent this. Mindlessness? Mindfulness? What point in
struggling with this? No-mind does not require sacrifice of mind. Mind
cannot attain no-mind. The is nothing to attain. Nothing lacks.
Recognizing this, seeing mind as no-mind, there is only realization.
Why attach to/reject/settle for stories of this and that, just because
there is nothing else to learn?* The matter is already settled. Mind is
already too still to be felt, too clear to be seen. Perfect emptiness,
presenting as the wonder of experiencing, as empty thoughts and feelings
of the 10,000 things.*L*
*This, is of course just another such story. Or so it appears.
K
