Sublime

Instead of trying to figure out in our minds what action to take, we only need to purify the base of ourselves; the action will flow out of that. The mind quiets down because we observe it instead of getting lost in it. Then the breathing deepens and, when the fire really burns, there’s nothing it can’t consume. When the fire gets hot enough, there

“If there remains in your mind a single notion of doubt, that is Mara. If you arrive at understanding the unborn nature of all that is and know that the mind is a magic show, that there is no object, no phenomenon that has a real existence, then wherever you are there is purity, and that is Buddha.

In Zen, an awakening experience, a direct glimpse of non-dual reality, is known as kensho, which means “seeing your original nature.”

Wu-hsin is action on any level whatsoever, physical or psychic, without trying at the same moment to observe and check the action from outside.

Zen Master Linji

For Zen students the most important thing is not to be dualistic. Our “original mind” includes everything within itself.

Zen Buddhism provides a different answer by declaring unequivocally that we ourselves are nothing but perfect, complete, infinite, and absolute existence.

This can be done in a few seconds as past, future, NOT-MIND.

LU NUNG-SHIH says, “The mind knows and chooses, while the stomach doesn’t know but simply contains. The will wants and moves, while bones don’t want but simply stand there. Sages empty what knows and fill what doesn’t know. They weaken what wants and strengthen what doesn’t want.”