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Yes Walker❤ It is also the title of this thread. These thing are so abstruse, so I don't blame you at all for asking!! I only know reality. The terms are only for reference. I don't do Chinese per se, but it doesn't matter too much as Reality is universal and not a product of a culture. Even so, I am eternally grateful for the vocabulary developed and cultivated by the realized one's teaching traditions. The Mysterious Pass is experienced by penetrating the aperture of the heart of heaven and earth which has no location. Yet if one had no physical body, one would not be able to find it. Nevertheless, it is not to be found there. As I say, inconceivability is beyond words, so I do get slightly less than literally technical in my terminology …sorry!!❤❤ The Mysterious Female is a term, not a thing. This is what I'm describing above. I say sudden enlightenment isn't necessary to appropriate the functioning of enlightening being. I say the sudden is the result of enlightening function over time. ed note: add last line of 2nd paragraph

When you find the road, creation acts in concert. Settling into situations, one simply waits to find out what happened. One simply shares oneself openly in selfless adaption. Waiting in stillness, one observes Return. "East Mountain walking on water" is indicating that "neither yin nor yang" is your function beyond movement and stillness. So simply waiting isn't a matter of passive stillness while waiting for inevitability's fulfillment (or assuming personal ascendancy in moving along towards somewhere more important). This neither movement nor stillness is the living bestowal of one's inherent potential in the midst of affairs. This is uncontrived, sincerely open vulnerability. Enlightening being isn't passive. It isn't a matter of acting either. There are some people who like to throw around the term wu wei. Wu wei is East Mountain walks on water. But adepts aren't metaphors, so they swim in Suchness. Wu wei isn't a thing, nor is it an event. It is a name for the essential character of one's function of enlightening being which is not a separate reality. It is the aware totality of oneself, unborn; spontaneous selfless response: acting without acting in everyday ordinary situations. Watching over the task and function of the aperture of the Mysterious Female, one witnesses changes. In recognizing changes, one does not go along with creation. So selfless adaption isn't a matter of accommodating phenomena, it is responding to the time. Creation is already one's self, but response to other is why sameness within difference is spoken of in terms of Suchness. Karma needs time. So adepts excel in waiting. Enlightening beings respond to the time in order to absorb potential from within the conditioned. The temporal is inherently absolute, so in responding to the time, enlightening beings respond to situations effectively by abstracting: seeing through phenomena without denying characteristics to aid nonpsychological evolution without going along with created cycles of karmic evolution. Seeing this is the functioning of Suchness as it is. Those partaking of ineffable Reality do so by virtue of seeing it. So in partaking of reality, real humans go in reverse, opposite the flow of creation. This is all there is to turning the light around spoken of in the Secret of the Golden Flower. This is the meaning of the saying, "It is as easy as turning over your hand". This is the Great Vehicle of buddhas, saints, adepts and wizards. ed note: spice up paragraph 4; add "nopsychological" in paragraph 7; add the penultimate line

Stepping Over Eternity Stepping over eternity isn't a matter of seeing your nature because the unattributable nature of awareness is inherent. Inasmuch as it's you already, there is no eternity to speak of, therefore there is no stepping over in terms of realization. Stepping over eternity is accomplished momentarily without relying on anyone else, so it is done independently without involving cause, therefore it is not a matter of response but rather the result of recognizing nonpsychological spirit. Since stepping over eternity is perennially active as the result of the power of impersonal intent independent of conditions, obviously it is not a matter of movement either. Not stillness, not movement; not self, not other— Sudden enlightenment is the result of just this kind of activity! Even so, how could I mislead others by saying there is relying on an instantaneous flash of selfless wonder and enable the conceits of the ignorant to blaze within their very hypocrisy that claims enlightenment isn't "that big a part" of taoist teaching either. What a comfortable little spot that rat's nest is. Stepping over eternity is not some other time, place, or person. On one mental moment there are past and present of all worlds. Since this is so, before the first thought~ who does the beginning? In just this "on one mental moment there are past and present of all worlds" you do not entertain fascinations regarding self and other and eternity is traversed. You have no changes here~ and though the depth and breadth of creation has been completely transcended without stooping to movement or stillness in terms of self and other… before the first thought one already knows. The reason there are teachers is not to offer views to seeklings because essence cannot be taught: People must see essence on there own. The reason there are teachers is to guide those who arrive in the aftermath of realization. Essence is inherent; it has only to be witnesses oneself. The reason there are teachers is to manifest the application of subtle awareness by treading the path of prior illuminates in endless transformations. If by treading the path of prior illuminates we arrive at the applications of subtle awareness one can begin to realize the value of wisdom that is in the application of its virtue has no cause. One who endeavors to activate causeless reality within oneself is already coeval in subtle operation taking over creation and is beyond the feeble practices of the smaller vehicle. The knowledge of causelessness and its application in ordinary affairs is independent of intellectual understanding and is not the result of sudden enlightenment— Carried out over a long period of time, it is the cause of it. Stepping over eternity is not some other time, place, or person. On one mental moment there are past and present of all worlds. Since this is so, before the first thought~ who does the beginning? Before the first thought, who already knows? From this it is clear that one who steps over eternity does so for all times and places without conventions relying on before and after. Neither seeking acceptance nor avoiding censure in full view of prior illuminates looking back on the path perpetually arriving those traversing the abyss of the eternity of creative evolution in one step arrive without striving nor tarrying— only responding according to the timing by riding the nonpsychological spirit inherent in the situation itself.

Vous ony has it once, cheri❤ hahaha!!

…um, there's this taoist classic called the Sun Tzu (The Art of War). It's about fighting. It basically says there has never been a time without war (even making faces is war). There is a way to war if it is unavoidable. If it is unavoidable, there is a way to wage it. If one wages war, one should do so to the fullest extent and get it over with asap. War is like fire. If you don't put it out you will be burned. The Sun Tzu is included in the taoist canon. Waging war effectively is extremely compassionate and certainly profitable.

Peerless Dakini You do not see her radiantly Thereafter the vehicle is greatness Her fashion uncanny With manners clearly disarming Her weight upon you Still she moves How do you perceive The vision dispelling appearances

i should really concur, mon ami~ as for Peerless Dakini …Winter is her element and best suited for her wardrobe— perhaps a bit thin?~ but perhaps not, (pour ze dentellenoire) heeheehee!!❤❤

Merciiii, dr no❤

No further comment, Jade.❤

hi Jade~ I guess you meant me…❤ The statement was "creation itself is THE illusion". You use conditioned awareness to perceive this. It is because your own Unborn awareness is burdened by aggregates of karmic and personalistic accumulations that you can only perceive the mundane aspect of your totality. You are the world, ie: you are not separate from anything. This you that you have come to believe as your own private identity is not the totality. Since this you (of yours) is created, it is no different than the totality of creation. That's not sophistry. It's a fact. When one becomes aware of the totality of oneself, there is no thing. This then proves that creation, including your own physical identity is illusion. And since when one reverts to this totality and back again into created form, this proves that mind is singular. So it is your own mind that concocts endless realities. Reality itself has no counterpart. The mind is singular, uncreated, selfless and miraculously aware. There is no cause. It is inconceivability itself. How could it possible make sense? But that's the way it is, and no one knows why. Your awareness is unborn. If you can discover your true mind and body, you will realize there is no "my". I do not believe. I don't have to. There is no reason. I just adapt to reality. There is no belief because it is known. You don't have to believe that the water is cold because you know it. That is the ageless analogy. The knowledge isn't your body and the knowledge isn't you. It's the knowledge itself. This knowledge is objective, selfless, immediate and requires no intellectual deliberation. This is your unborn mind. Gradually becoming aware of this mind is a matter of self-refinement. I have just given you proof. If you are unable to develop the discipline to recognize the Unborn in yourself and instead follow your habitual intellectualism then you are going along with the flow of created karmic evolution as an ordinary worldling even though you have the potential of inconceivable enlightening being. There is no "either way" in terms of reality— it just is as it is. "Either way" only exists in terms of rationalistic intellectualism. The human mentality perpetually entertains and maintains it's false existence itself with this "either way". It is it's first line of defense. Why don't you start testing and probing this line of defense, hmmmm? Don't worry, there are many, many other subtle and insidious defenses employed by ego. You are not this false identity at all. The reality is, ego's defenses are all unnecessary. Ego is valid. It just shouldn't be in control and taking credit for anything. It's not a thing. It's just a function. It is identity as such that is the root of all illusion. It is not a matter of believing in the illusion or the absolute. To cling to one or the other is delusion. To be unaware of one's delusion is delusion. To be aware of one's delusion is enlightening being. The totality is not a combination of anything. It is whole, complete, living aware potential energy. It is what you are. You are not it. ed note: typo in 6th sentence, among others; last line, penultimate paragraph: add "that"

I don't see visible chi, but i do see invisible potential. It is not apart from ordinary situations. It's not a recreational, phenomenal thing separated from the context of the situation. Actually it drives the situation. I call it potential. I don't know if energy is the same or different. Perhaps it is too boring though, because you can't see it with your physical eyes. But it doesn't require any exercises.

Creation itself is the illusion. Feelings only serve to validate the illusory self. ion has a very good sense of it. There is absolutely no way to make sense of it intellectually. It is inconceivable. Any way you look at it or even see it in terms of transcendent vision it is you all the way through. This you is not a separate thing. This you has no individual attributability. The absolute aspect is no to be clung to intellectually either. Clinging to one or the other is delusion. The totality is aware at all times. When you turn the focus of your awareness around to see through phenomena and your own perspective without denying characteristics of situations themselves, you can begin to get this sense of ion's description in terms of selfless adaption. It is not a matter of action or giving away anything. It is acknowledging one's intrinsic inseparability from the situation. Adapting really means just seeing the situation for what it really is as ion says. Usually what is necessary is not doing anything based on self-reflective perspectives. What is not created is the real. The real is awareness itself. Your own awareness is unborn. It is the Unborn, to use Bankei's term. There is no person. There is no thing. If one can go along with the real nonpsychological primal spirit and not entertain views of self and other in the midst of situation by selfless adaption, one can pass through cycles of creation and be a partner rather than be subject to evolutionary cycles of karmic time. This is enlightening function. Selflessness is only a term indicative of those who follow nonpsychological awareness and let the world go on without them. This is the meaning of reversal in taoist alchemical writings.

Individual consciousness has never begun. You are the world itself. It's just your own mind. When you interrupt this illusion you revert to nonoriginated selfless awareness which is your own mind. There are no two minds. So selfless aware nature is unborn. Your awareness is just this nature right now. Inconceivability is actually manageable. It's you already. It isn't a matter of sudden enlightenment at all because pristine aware nature is self-refreshing. You can go along with this instead of self-degrading action habitually chained to created cycles of the world of you poison yourself with views of right and wrong and self and other. Ego-consciousness is necessary but has usurped the master. There are times when reality appears of itself. If you can set to work and refine the self, the time will come of itself and you will arrive expending no effort. It is a matter of interrupting this habitual consciousness of the personal identity. One needs to watch over this mind without following it unawares. After a long time without going along with its illusory nature, its fire will die down and the real will appear of itself. ed note: add a few lines

poofs!!

Redundant obedience from a position of superiority is humiliating. Please consider yourself reproved and forgotten. Only you can help yourself, cheri. Please forget it. I have.❤

Recently after my last hiatus, I posted something and a few things suninmyeyes said instantly stuck in my mind. I haven't really thought about them, just holding on to a few aspects over the last month or so. I was waiting to address the observations she'd made, namely: the way our thoughts and situations, or our thoughts about situations seem like a broken record. Also, she pointed out how really a type of psychological suicide seems reasonable (my take on your comment, mon amie).❤ My first thought regarding the "broken record' was that it is the essential element one has, besides will and patience, to refine oneself. So being irritated by this repetitious thing is all one has to settle down with. The broken record is our life-raft after all. One just has to learn how to climb up on it. Once one has the wherewithal to climb on, one just needs to trust. Not intellectualizing, not following the human mentality (the very source of doubt), one learns to trust the raft of irritations without following the human mentality. One ceases to pair experiencing with the habitual chatter automatically, unnaturally attaching itself to the experience. We come to know our true self as neither. This repetitious thing is crowding out the incomplete thing, the open empty thing, the free thing, it seems. Perhaps it is a matter of the hiccup thing being seen as duel with the incomplete— and the feeling of self-consciousness is quite uncomfortable. It is very irritating. The interesting thing is that it is while the repetition is an irritation is it the precise time to use it for self-refinement. Otherwise, we sink into its habit energy and loose our affinities with the duelling aspect and consequently our ability to utilize that edge, the acuity that is the budding yang-phase of the natural fire. It is up to us to recognize it and grasp it immediately before the yin convergence. Usually we feel this irritation is something we want to go away! When neurosis is acute, it is indicative of danger. It is actually insanity. The fact is, thought itself is indicative of mental illness. But usually we don't see it. Only when it is obvious and irritating us do we recognize it and can strive to bring up the nonpsychological to counter it. Just bring up the real in the midst of the false. This is the timing and the place of the firing process spoken of in the alchemic classics. One should never endeavor to employ the real at this juncture. It is enough just to introduce the duelism. I just came across a line regarding the fifth hexagram, Waiting. It is the fourth changing line, a yin at a yin's place. It is correct in this situation as it yields. It is also correct in terms of a time of Waiting. For enlightening beings, waiting is the passing of time. There is no other time. It says, "Waiting in water, coming out of one's cave." The commentary follows with, "In Buddhist terms, when the forces of delusion have been defeated, you come out beyond the lairs of all physical and metaphysical realms and attain true awareness." Huh?!! I'm screwed! How can this be a time "when the forces of delusion have been defeated"? It's the fact that you finally see that you are screwed that the forces of delusion have been defeated. Delusion is simply being unaware of being deluded. Obviously, at this point, one is in a very dangerous spot. One is so close to evil, one's proximity enables one to see it for what it is, which is not a separate thing at all. You yourself are the world. Further on, the commentary says, "Waiting in water means listening receptively". The hexagram Waiting, is a Water trigram over the trigram Heaven. The Water trigram symbolizes danger. Obviously, when one is waiting in it (first line of the Water trigram over Heaven; fourth line of the Waiting hexagram), the situation is indeed dangerous. So seeing the danger is indicative of a dangerous situation when one is in the midst of it. At this point, one only needs yield to the situation and wait for the time to walk out of danger oneself. What follows in this I Ching reading is in compliance with my statement above, "One should never endeavor to employ the real at this juncture. It is enough just to introduce the duelism". Notice it does not say that the forces of delusion have retreated of themselves. It just says that one can see to it that it does, in fact, retreat. So it is a victory over delusion to see it. This is what is happening when we notice the broken record. It's a good thing to be noticing it. It means it's time. This is the celestial timing of subtle operation of enlightening beings. It also says we do not use force to conquer delusion. It says enlightenment is achieved of itself when the forces of delusion retreat. Furthermore, it says that (if one is seeing) one sees to it that the forces of delusion retreat of themselves. Finally, it says that one uses the power of concentrated compassion to accomplish it. I hope nobody is imagining the power of concentrated compassion to be some sort of conventional nicety. Just what sort of thing could this concentrated compassion be? Concentrated compassion is Essence. This is the essence of one's aware nature. When one sees one's nature, one sees this essence. It is, in fact, concentrated compassion. No. Not that one. It's just a word. You have to see it yourself to wield it yourself, but at times it appears. When you hear the broken record, this is the time. You grab this potential essence and seal it away, not leaking a spark, utterly void of intellectualism. Essence, concentrated compassion, nonpsychological awareness, true lead, true awareness, the mind of Tao~ all these names just indicate what comes out beyond the lairs of all physical and metaphysical realms to see to it that the forces of delusion retreat of themselves. Since it is a fact that you are the world itself, this is because when you see reality, essential nature is not different. The world is a refraction of Complete Reality. This is how the real can feel so familiar. Actually, it is all there has ever been. We just rarely, if ever, see it for what it is. It is you. You are not it. If one watches over the mind 24 hours a day whether walking, sitting, dancing or lying down, the time will come of itself and you will recognize it, seize it and seal it away in the midst of delusion. In endless transformations one plants lotuses in fire. This is enlightening being. The time of enlightenment is only an indication of awakening to one's intrinsic harmony with Complete Reality. It is a sign that one's karmic bonds have been destroyed. In real terms it is the time of the severance of the beginningless compulsions to act. Enlightenment is one's newborn innocence replete with one's inherent potential. At this point it is one's responsibility to stabilize, solidify and bring this potential to fruition symbolized by the period of ten months incubation. It is wrong to believe enlightenment confers buddhahood. There is an affinity in terms of a delicate evolutionary phase between sudden enlightenment and the time of one's repetitive dealings with the broken record during the initial phases of self-refinement as well as further evolution in the aftermath of the sudden. I will address some aspect of psychological suicide at some time…❤

I said quite clearly that I offer no explanations, dear. As for not-knowing, you do not know the first thing about it. Fuck your zen-master. It is obvious your maturity on this subject is non-existent, otherwise you would not be pimping some chump you have never understood in the first place. I know as well or better than anyone about there being absolutely nothing to know. But you'd have to see your nature to ascertain THAT, and you haven't. It's about me, yes. Evidently that's too much candor for one such as you? Better get used to it…❤ ed note: spiced it up a bit

A bum asked about some finer points of breathing and any texts I could recommend. My reply: There are many such texts~ I love to read them, but I do not follow any proscribed method. I do not even practice breathing, myself. But that's just me. When I read them I note them, again and again, recognizing their context and level of concentration, in terms of my experiences. I do not try to duplicate their instructions or even my own experiential states. It's just being fully aware of one's state as it is right now and not seeking beyond this presence. The rule is to use the sickness as the medicine. It is then very easy to turn the medicine into the sickness unawares when trying to produce results. Even sudden enlightenment is like this. (Here I go) In terms of the firing process, watching mind without following it is true yang fire; concentration— like going along, following desire in situations without stepping over the line, ei: not following thoughts unawares. That is, consciously observing mind objectively without producing views unawares. Yin convergence is not conceiving views when meditative states (insight) melt through the façade of the intellectual identity. The sudden is a very significant insight, but not beyond forgetting thoughts for an instant. It is inconsequential. What matters is being fully present right now because that is all there is regardless of our current state. And then I would only make one suggestion concerning breathing …and that is, what is most critical is that one does not concern oneself at all with the breath itself. What is most essential is letting the mind die down and out. If the mind is racing, then you watch over breath as a counter-point, yes, but it is a very subtle affair. The whole point of mindful breathing is arriving at the clarification of mind and abiding in just that. But abiding in just whatever state that is is all there is; being mindful of breath is just because it's there anyway. The whole point is watching over the mind; breath is used so you don't go along with the human mentality unawares out of habit. The breathing just keeps one present while one watches over the mind. If you instead make breath the issue, your breathing races and doesn't settle and disappear along with mind in womb-breathing. Subtle neurosis, bloating and strange ailments are the hallmark of those who are habituated to breathing exercises. When my mind races, I just let it. i sigh and smile to myself~ like the Clown singing "The Sandman" in Blue Velvet. hahahaa!!❤❤ Last night I was not thinking anything, but I did not effect any subtle states. I just noticed where respiration was located and how subtle it was, and how relaxed my eyes felt, that's all. Then I fell asleep…❤ I will only mention one book I have called Minding Mind, translated by Thomas Cleary. ISBN 1-57062-004-0. Evidently, I have read it many times!!❤ haha!! ed note: oops~ one too many "L" in Cleary.

Those who glibly claim to have "no practice" and conceitedly trumpet simply living as "my life" are sadly deluded. This is because following random activity and calling that spontaneity, may be accomplishing "no practice", but this has no affinity with the function of observing mind arriving at cessation of random consciousness. This is because "my life" at this point is not yet one's own, independent of conditioned existence. Until ignorant individuals arrive at the will to enlightenment and struggle deliberately to turn their lives around by turning the light of their own consciousness around, go in reverse, and finally arrive at the origin of Complete Reality, will they discover for themselves that "my life" has no power in or outside of karmic evolution until it is blown away forever by realizing their nature void of self. Until practice reaches the realm of unattributability there is no automomy because until one is finally and continuously aware of nonorigination, one cannot transcend being bound by the conditioned self constituting the karmic matrix going through its inexorable cycles of yin and yang. Obviously, it is only when these individuals reach their serial impasses do they endeavor to deploy their defiant "my life" proclamations. This would be the very antithesis of the selflessly autonomous adaption of enlightening being in everyday ordinary situations unbeknownst to anyone which is the middle way whereby neither absolute nor mundanity stand. True effective practice is arrival at the subsequently permanent activation of turning the light around to illuminate its source and have that source void of self or other identify one's life. Those who fall back to the refuge of "my life" when it suits them are proving their ultimate ignorance of the source of spontaneity and their partnership as coeval with creation— and not subject to it. This is then where phenomena is empty and characteristics have their variables. Enlightening being is governed by random karmic activity in that selfless response has no set categories, only relying on the timing of heaven, the situations of earth, and the phantoms of self and other in concert as the creatively evolving karmic matrix alternates cyclically. Arrival transcends the puny morality of "my life" in that one sees through phenomena without denying their characteristics. You see through your life without denying its characteristics as well. Therefore one does not go along with conditions but subtly stands apart by not harboring ulterior motives in speculation on outcomes or for one's ego-securities, only adapting impersonally by assessing objectively in the midst of changes. The primal and temporal are originally not two. This is not beyond the function of enlightening being seeing through "my life". Complete Reality is one's function in terms of unity of absolute and conditional in one breath. Otherwise, what would be the point of seeing your nature? It is just to enable one to activate the real in ordinary situations unbeknownst to anyone. If anyone knew, it wouldn't be real~ nor would it be natural. "Nevertheless, it is necessary to wind up at the point where 'heaven is open, earth is broad, and all things are just as they are,' for only this can be considered attainment." ed note: italicize "that source void of self or other"; bold "identify one's life" in 7th paragraph

Hydrogen said: The point of awakening to one's nature is simply the means to stabilize inherent impersonal nonpsychological awareness in the forefront of one's ordinary consciousness. The perk is manifold. First, even though nothing is gained by complete, perfect enlightenment, one is freed of the karmic compulsion to act. That saves an inconceivable amount of energy. Second, there is no forward to speak of as you sit at the incipience of complete reality. Pristine awareness is uncreated, Beyond before and after, already at the cusp of going into action in perpetuity. You are utter innocence itself, unbegotten. There is no coming or going. Awake without dwelling on appearances is the day-job of enlightening beings. They adapt to conditions impersonally, are coeval with creation in terms of potential and are not subject to karmic cycles of creation. As one's dharma eye is open, there are endless transformations whereby evolution is in terms of the celestial, by virtue of the temporal. Since one sees through objects of awareness, one can respond without confusion in order to help oneself and others without involving habit energy. One uses the temporal to clarify conscious development. One simply does not go along with Creation. One secretly operates in reverse going against the flow of the ordinary worldly self-reflective function.

hi Vous, Yes, well— I should be so lucky, as I haven't really said too much in the last few months, non?!! €];·)) Yes, it is so…❤

It is pointless to speculate on the inconceivable. Anyone can do that. It is irascible to proclaim that Taoism (as if there is such a thing apart from your intellectual apparatus) isn't a matter of seeing your own nature. As if there is nothing but a vague idea that the classics of wizards, buddhas and adepts have based their authentic teaching on. All the authentic teachings are based on really seeing your own nature yourself. Sudden enlightenment is the entry-level experience. All the authentic traditions are based on the discoveries of real people who had the unstoppable aspiration to find out for themselves what the source of awareness is. The Tao is not a thing. It is all you. Your own mind is just this. It has never come into being. You do not actually exist. How do you reconcile the real mysteries with your own apparent wonder? Would you dare? People who do not know the nonpsychological is spiritual can come up with specious concoctions contriving speculations that the wisdom of the ages is not all that important to experience personally. Yet they do not even consider how the authors of the classic teachings of the authentic traditions the world over came to leave the knowledge behind for others with the audacity to discover the matter of life and death for themselves. This is the conceit of dilettantism. This is the delusional disfunction of those who are content to confuse the culture of taoism with the source of taoism. The source of taoism is not taoist. The Tao is you and you are the world itself. This is the reality. It is not taoist. The world exists by virtue of karmic momentum. This is the matrix of creative evolution. It is possible to be free of this if you dare to aspire to enlightening being. If you can still the world, then you will cease to exist. When you can interrupt the beginningless flow of conditioned conscious knowledge you will see the essence of nonoriginated selfless aware nature. Stepping over eternity, you will never belong to the legions of speculators and dilettantes. There is no argument for those who have seen their nature. There is nothing to explain. Descriptions are vague. Words are not it. The homeland of nothing whatsoever is the true dharma-eye. It is not apart from your own everyday ordinary mind right now. If you can turn the light of conscious awareness around it instantly turns into the real. Then you will no longer be satisfied with convoluted philosophical arrangements suited only for polite conversation. One must be able to dispense with attachment to teachers and traditions to find the source within oneself. ed note: All the authentic teachings are based on really seeing your own nature yourself in bold

Merci-vous, Clarity!!❤

The one you speak of is the one who knows not-knowing. Do you seek this or do you know this? Bodhidharma said, "Don't know". I said about, oh, one day ago~ that this not knowing is to swallow the entirety of Complete Reality, neither being nor nonbeing. You may be making a fine point, but do you really know this yourself? Do you also know this? I don't mind talking about this with you, but let's please endeavor to pursue this on your own thread, ok? Let's not get off-topic as this thread is about me and my working relationship with you. Here I have laid down the ground-rules for bums who want to talk with me. I expect you to conduct yourself accordingly.❤

Your post has been in my thoughts as a point of departure, suninmyeyes a little over a month since you shared it. I was interested in starting with "a broken record" and also penetrating the subject of the last sentence too, because without that break from the habitual perspective, one's dharma-eye of nonpsychological aware space cannot develop sufficiently in terms of enlightening being of the great vehicle and its subtle operation. It will come …perhaps sooner, maybe later.❤