'conceptualized percepts'

From the first,

not a thing there is,

except what you have made

out of your own illusive mind.


---Ch'an text quoted by D.T. Suzuki

all is

There is no one to look.

There is no place to look.

There is What IS.


--- Wayne Liquorman

a non-finite mirror reflecting everything

Q: What exactly do you mean when you say, or imply, that everything perceived is a "reflection of the perceiver?" Of the self of the perceiver?

A: Could there be such an entity---other than as a phenomenal reagent apparatus? All perception is presumably a reflection of what appears in what is conveniently referred to as "pure mind," commonly compared to a non-finite mirror which reflects everything, retains nothing, and has no cognisable existence.

Q: Whose notion is that?

A: To my knowledge Chuang Tzu described it first, and the T'ang dynasty Masters and their successors used the simile freely. "Mirror-Mind" has proved a helpful appellation.

Q:Does the "Mirror-Mind" perceive "ill-mannered bastards?"

A: The "Mirror-Mind," or what the term represents, perceives no thing whatever. Perception is phenomenal, and "ill-mannered bastards," or "sanctity" for that matter, is a conceptual interpretation on the part of what may be called a psychic complex.

Q: Then what is there really?

A: Why, no thing, of course! You are making figments and hurling them at one another--- like clowns with custard pies.

Q: What fools you make us out to be!

A: That, too, is a custard pie. "Self and other" are the oldest and most ubiquitous pair of clowns---the very archetypes of all clowns and of all clownishness.


--- Wei Wu Wei

Undivided, mind IS Apperceiving

Wei Wu Wei used a term I like very much: apperception.

The pointer of this term was to suggest perception without a perceiver, knowing without a knower.

This apperception is a knowing beyond the organism, a knowing that is TOTAL...not relative.


--- Wayne Liquorman

mirror mind (direct non-volitional apperceiving)

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection:

The water has no mind to receive their image.


--- Chuang Tzu

Just the no-facts, ma'am

There are no facts,

only interpretations.


--- Nietzsche

I AM ALL !

Like an electric light discovering

that it, itself, is shining;

the awareness that is intrinsic,

discovers itself.


--- Sokei-an

the gateless gate

The layman Vimalakirti has asked each of the assembled Bodhisattvas to define non-duality. After each of them has given his view, he asks Manjusri to express his.

Manjusri says, "As I understand it, when there is not a word to utter, not a sign to see, nothing to take cognizance of, and when there is complete detachment from every form of questioning, then one enters the gate of non-duality."

Manjusri then asks, "O Vimalakirti, what is your view?"

Vimalakirti remains silent and does not utter a word.

"Well done, well done, indeed O Vimalakirti!" cries Manjusri. "This is really the way to enter the gate of non-duality, which no words can explain!"


from "Zen and Japanese Culture" by D.T. Suzuki

intimate answer

If you want to be intimate with Reality,

no questions need to be asked---

for the answer is where they have not yet been raised.


--- D.T. Suzuki

doesn't it ?

Doesn't it "take time"

to "be present" ?

an absolute point where no dualism obtains

If you want to understand Zen, understand it right away without deliberation, without turning your head this way or that. For while you are doing this, the object you have been seeking for is no longer there. This doctrine of immediate grasping is characteristic of Zen.

If the Greeks taught us how to reason and Christianity what to believe, it is Zen that teaches us to go beyond logic and not to tarry even when we come up against "the things which are not seen." For the Zen point of view is to find an absolute point where no dualism in whatever form obtains.

Logic starts from the division of subject and object and belief distinguishes between what is seen and what is not seen. With Zen all these are swept aside as something veiling our insight into the nature of life and reality.


--- D.T. Suzuki

forget yourself

The art of the sword consists not in vying for victory, nor in testing strength;

it consists in your not seeing me and my not seeing you.

The swordsman does not see "this' or "that"

and yet knows well what's what.


He now has no sword, no body. But this does not mean

that all has vanished into a state of nothingness,

for there is most decidedly a something

that is moving, acting, and thinking.


The main point is to forget yourself as well as your opponenent

and to let the myo work itself out.


--- D. T. Suzuki

no room here

Myo is a Japanese word signifying a mode of activity which comes directly out of one's inmost self without being intercepted by the dichotomous intellect.

The act is so direct and immediate that intellection finds no room here to insert itself and cut it to pieces.

Freedom, creativity, and myo are synonymous.


--- from 'Zen and Japanese Culture' by D.T. Suzuki

What is there

to be wanted,

or feared,

by any one?

no way

How can we point to "THIS" that includes the very act of pointing?

it takes two to tango

Because everything is, in essence, oneness,

all reference points in the appearance

are false.


--- Sailor Bob

The pointer is

that Awareness, or Subjectivity is ALL-including,

and thereby,

is the dissolving of all objectivity,

as such.

this knowing which we are

"Non-dual Truth" is this knowing which we are,

not any knowledge that we can claim to possess.

Truth cannot be possessed

There is no PERSON that "contains" this universal consciousness.
--- Robert Wolfe

Because Truth cannot be possessed, the I-possessor...is a role we simply stop playing...Reality is already ALL. --- William Samuel

Why isn't there a self?

Because it would need another to find the one.


--- Wei Wu Wei

One-Only-Reality

One-Only-Reality "loves" (knows and is aware of) Itself.

That Love in action is this Awareness-we-are.


--- William Samuel

Isness being Itself

The One Identity am I;

and there is no other "I"

but Isness being Itself!


--- William Samuel

suffer > L ferre (to bear), sub (under)

The "human organism" is naturally, functionally "self-referencing."

This is necessary for survival and is not, in itself, the "delivery system" for suffering.

It is the mistaken sense that this organism has the additional ability to somehow STAND APART from itself - to create its thoughts, feelings, and actions - that puts it in position for carrying the burdens of guilt and shame when things don't go as planned (or of pride and conceit when they do).

This "mistaken sense" is chimerical, and may be exposed as such, in the "all -inclusiveness" of present awareness.

a rather special kind of noticing

The kind

wherein

there is nobody to notice

that

there is nothing to be noticed.


--- Wei Wu Wei

the answer

The "answer"

is where

there is no question.