Sunday, March 6, 2011

Day #63

Today’s favourite poses: Plank, Pigeon, Rock the Baby, Bow and Arrow

Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 6 (give or take 1 or 2)

Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from ZEN)

Practice
Just detach from all sound and form, but do not dwell in detachment, and do not dwell in intellectual interpretation – this is practice.
As for reading scriptures and studying the doctrines, according to worldly conventions it is a good thing, but from the perspective of one who is aware of inner truth, it chokes people.

Inherent Nature
Inherent nature cannot be named. Originally it is not mundane, nor is it holy; it is neither defiled nor pure. It is not empty or existent either, and it is not good or bad.
When it is involved with impure things, it is called the two vehicles of divinity and humanity.
When mental involvement in purity and impurity is ended, the mind does not dwell in bondage or liberation; it has no mindfulness of striving or non-striving, or of bondage or liberation.
Then, even though it is within birth and death, the mind is free, ultimately it does not comingle with all the vanities, the empty illusions, material passions, life and death, or media of sense.
Transcendent, without abode, it is not constrained by anything at all; it comes and goes through birth and death as though an open door.
Pai-chang



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