Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Ideas by Mr. Huang-Po

Mr. Huang-Po is an ancient person in my book of ideas which I read it every morning to gather courage. Today I was reading about Mr. Huang-Po, who is extremely ancient (he died in year 849 c.e.) but also very clever.  Believe it or not, he talks about hive-mind quite a bit.  Soon I will write all about hive-mind, but for now I am “engaging the subconscious” which is something I was taught to do by a nun who was also my teacher.

Mr. Huang-Po’s idea:

Your true nature is not lost in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moments of enlightenment. It was never born and can never die. It shines through the whole universe, filling emptiness, one with emptiness. It is without time or space, and has no passions, actions, ignorance, or knowledge. In it there are no things, no people, and no Buddhas; it contains not teh smallest hairbreadth of anything that exists objectively; it depends on nothign and is attached to nothing.  It is all-pervading, radiant beauty; absolute reality, self existent and uncreated. How then can you doubt that the Buddha has no mouth to speak with nothing to teach, or that the truth is learned without learning, for who is there to learn?

He is a genius Mr. Huang-Po.  When I read this I imagine him sitting in a field explaining all of his ideas to some sort of caterpillar, because I imagine that a caterpillar is about the only thing that would understand what he is trying to say.