You’re bound to
become a buddha if you practice.
If water drips long enough, even rocks wear through.
It’s not true thick skulls can’t be pierced;
people just imagine their
minds are hard.
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like the moon reflected in water
My teaching
which has come down
from the ancient Buddhas
is not dependent on meditation
(dhyana) or on diligent application
of any kind. When you attain the insight as
attained by the Buddha, you realize that Mind is
Buddha and Buddha is Mind, that Mind, Buddha,
sentient beings, Bodhi (enlightenment),
and Klesa (passions) are of one and
the same substance while
they vary in names.
You should know that
your own mind−essence is neither subject
to annihilation nor eternally subsisting, is neither
pure nor defiled, that it remains perfectly undisturbed and
self−sufficient and the same with the wise and the ignorant, that it
is not limited in its working, and that it is not included in the
category of mind (citta), consciousness (manas), or
thought (vijnana). The three worlds of desire,
form, and no−form, and the six paths
of existence are no more than
manifestations of your
mind itself.
They are all like the moon
reflected in water or images in the
mirror. How can we speak of them as being
born or as passing away? When you come
to this understanding, you will be
furnished with all the things
you are in need of.
leave behind incorrectness
If you indulge
a bad habit, no matter
how small, eventually you fall
into an abysmal pit. Leave
behind incorrectness
now.
first changing line,
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 29, K’an / The Abysmal (Water)
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after we resume our original nature
When the water returns
to its original oneness with the river,
it no longer has any individual feeling to
it; it resumes its own nature, and finds
composure. How very glad the
water must be to come
back to the original
river!
If this is so,
what feeling will we have
when we die? I think we are like the water
in the dipper. We will have composure then, perfect
composure. It may be too perfect for us, just now, because
we are so much attached to our own feeling, to our
individual existence. For us, just now, we have
some fear of death, but after we resume
our true original nature,
there is Nirvana.