Saturday, May 4, 2013

A Question To My Teacher


In the middle of the Hsin-Hsin Ming you read:

“When movement stops, there is no movement --
and when no movement, there is no stopping.
When such dualities cease to exist
Oneness itself cannot exist.
To this ultimate state
no law or description applies.”

Then the first two lines of the second to last stanza tells us:

“Each thing reveals the One,
the One manifests as all things”

I understand the first stanza I recorded telling us once you describe a thing you limit it. Is the second stanza I recorded countering this? Am I again over-thinking?

His answer:

"when such dualities cease to exist"---this is the way

Does your question engage in dualistic thinking? What are you separating? Think The Way instead of The One. The Way neither stops nor moves. Stopping and moving are opposed and yet in union. The Way neither is nor is not. To make The Way move or stop, to give it name or form, all those are the mind making distinctions. When the mind ceases naming and making distinctions the way is unobstructed. When unobstructed, The Way is revealed IN all things. It cannot be OF all things because then it would have name and form which it does not. It is beyond name and form and therefore beyond our discriminating mind. You are looking for it which is why it remains elusive. Stop looking and there it is. You will know it in the sound of the wind, the smell of a tomato, the color of a person's eyes, the touch of a hand. None of those things is there and yet they are. Each is as it is because they are each The Way. Now, don't think about any of them. Just be with them. That is all. That is The Way. No moving, no stopping. Just this.

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