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Huang Po was once questioned about the Mind Transmission:
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| Q: |
To whom did
the Patriarch silently transmit the Dharma? |
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No Dharma was transmitted
to anybody. |
| Q: |
Then why did the Second
Patriarch ask Bodhidharma for the transmission of Mind? |
| A: |
If
you hold that something was transmitted, you imply
that the Second Patriarch reached Mind by SEEKING,
but no amount of seeking can ever lead to Mind; so
we TALK only of transmitting Mind to
you. If you really GET something,
you will find yourself back on the Wheel of Birth and
Death.
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Seeking
and Getting or Not-getting is causal activity and not
Superconscious Mind
or Self-nature. This must be immediately and
directly entered into by You at
the time of Your decision. It is
not an intellectual conclusion to be achieved after
a period of studying books on Zen as an accumulation
of words and ideas in your calculating brain. That
is why Zen can be said to be headless as in the cutting
off of meaningless thinking activity at a single stroke. However,
it is not known as to which “single stroke” will
fell the tree of ignorance, so why not do Zazen and
make each breath in and out a cultivation of non-duality,
letting your body (the illusory “inside”)
and your environment (the illusory “outside”)
be as one? By merging your consciousness with
your breath and your breath with your consciousness,
you are realizing Self-nature in each and every breath,
but only when you are settled and aware of non-duality.
Superconscious Reality
is called Void, but it is not to be confused with
empty space between your body and your surroundings. That
space of body/world duality is illusion working in
causal empirical consciousness. The Space of
Reality is harder than diamond. Hence Superconscious
Mind is also called the Diamond Body of Buddhahood.
In this way of Conscious Breathing,
brain activity calms down and Enlightenment brightens
itself. Sudden (Consciousness) and Gradual
(Breathing) become two edges of the Dharma Sword
that cuts the root of causal birth and death cycling
in Your ignorance. When
every breath is non-dual, the Fruit
of the Way (Enlightenment) and the Seed of the Way
(Practice) are the same, which is Zen Practice of
direct supracausal realization. Hence
you are not Seeking or Getting in
Zen Practice. To
be established in Zen Practice is already Enlightenment
that is revealed more and more with each and every
breath. Luminous Diamond Space is Absolute
Reality, Sanity and Innate Purity of Self-nature.
Sooner or later you must go
direct in Self-nature beyond all your causal thinking,
talking and behavior which are endlessly reflected
in your disturbed, noisy and tense brain and nervous
system. That there is nobody to argue with
and no causal achievement of relative miracle or
perfection in Zen Practice is not a lack of anything You truly
need. It is only through the Vajrakaya Diamond
Body that your Dharmakaya Truth Body, Sambhogakaya
Happiness Body and Nirmanakaya Immortal
Body are produced and maintained for your own personal
certainty, fulfillment and freedom. If you seek those
three lesser bodies of Buddhahood as causal efforts
and achievements, you will only produce further disappointments
and troubles for yourself life after life because
of Your ignorant attitude. This is the Absolute
Truth if you will receive it now.
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