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Old 03-28-2011, 08:55 AM   #2
Unoloknovagog

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My understanding of this lies in the words, "awareness thus open & unhampered". The directions and so forth, indicated are all projections of mind. Impossibly miraculous powers are described, such as touching the sun, to indicate that there is something so profound which otherwise cannot be described.

An excerpt from "On Believing in Mind", a poem by the 7th century Zen master Seng-ts'an points to the same thing, phrased differently:

"The ultimate end of things where they cannot go any further
Is not bound by rules and measures:
In the Mind harmonious [with the Way] we have the principle of identity,
In which we find all strivings quieted;
Doubts and irresolutions are completely done away with,
And the right faith is straightened;
There is nothing left behind,
There is nothing retained,
All is void, lucid, and self-illuminating;
There is no exertion, no waste of energy
This is where thinking never attains,
This is where the imagination fails to measure."

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Or, perhaps it is only in my imagination that there is any similarity between the messages in these two texts...
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