Appearances in Emptiness can never affect Emptiness.
The space inside the cup is the same as the space outside the cup.
Only walls, mental or physical, delineate inside from outside.
The silence preceding the words is the same silence after they are spoken.
These are the offspring of the Unchanging.
Therefore, forget whatever can be forgotten.
In so doing, what is revealed is that which cannot be forgotten.
One must be empty of the known to understand this.
To try to incorporate it into the known is bound to fail.
We miss What-Is due to a lack of attention.
Instead, we create something else using excessive imagination,
which is like a high fever insofar as it makes you see things which aren't really there.
People have become enslaved to their thoughts.
They listen and obey. They are so entranced in the world
that their discrimination has atrophied.
They cannot even discern the difference between diamonds and rock salt.
You are where your mind is.
Escape from the thought sphere, therefore, is the imperative.
It is not accomplished by killing the mind, resisting thought or similar acts.
Instead, it happens quite naturally by removing attention from thoughts.
Without the energy of attention, thought dies.
It is suggested that nothing can change without effort.
Making tremendous efforts teaches the futility of effort.
It is like trying to escape from a pit by digging downward.
Wu Hsin says no effort is required in the sense that no effort is required to be aware.
Just relax, don't make an effort to relax.
In that natural relaxation, what you need to know will present itself.
No one can do it for you just as no one can eat for you to appease your hunger.
Only what is finite can have a center.
What you are is Infinite Being, that which is without dimension.
A body and mind with desires becomes a body and a mind without desires.
If the identification continues, the problem continues.
With the cessation of imagination and desire, the drive to becoming ceases
and being this or being that merges into pure being.
Thoughts appear as a necessary function in the human organism.
The organism does not decide to create them any more than it decides to breathe.
They are sourced from that which sustains and supports the organism.
To believe that you can stop your thoughts presupposes that you initiate them.
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