(© HKU Press, 1965)We are all part of the party: the party goes on even if we fall asleep, but our falling asleep is also part of the party.
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Do you remember?
When you look at a reflection of the moon in a puddle you are the moon looking at itself.* * *
You are merely an inference. Only objects are knowable.
So they must be all you can know of yourself.
Therefore the apparent universe is all that you are as a 'you'.* * *
We are required to cease looking at objects as events apart from ourselves, and to know them at their source - which is our perceiving of them.
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Your only self is other - there is no other that is not yourself.
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Until we know what we are not,
Which is the inferential phenomenon
That we think we are,
We can never know the immensity
Which is our noumenal non-being.* * *
Intention can make you a saint,
But it can prevent you from becoming a sage?
Appearance only: there is no entity to be either.* * *
All forms of practice are learning to kill dragons.
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'You look like a man riding a tethered horse'.
- Chuang Tzu, chapter XIII, p. 138.
Each of us spends his time 'riding a tethered horse'.
The horse cannot be set free;
But each of us can forbear to ride.* * *
How can it or anything be an illusion? What is the 'it' or 'anything'? There is no 'it' or 'anything' to be illusory!
Since there is nothing to be illusory - there is no such thing as illusion.
Nor, then, is there any thing to be anything, even to be not - to be or not to be.
That is true seeing.* * *
Owing to misuse of words one should not say, 'Don't meditate!' One has to say, 'Don't call it 'meditation' if it is not, but if it is - don't do it!'* * *
It is not for me or another to accept your notion which you call 'meditation': it is for you to give whatever you do a name which suggests what it is and not what it is not! Only then will it become possible to discuss it.
Words must be used in a sense which is in accordance with their etymology or, at least, in a sense accepted by a dictionary.* * *
Unless you hate you cannot possibly love.
And vice-versa.
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