No_dualism: To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind It means your mind pervades your whole body. With your full mind you form the mudra in your hands. We say our practice should be without gaining ideas, without any expectations, even of enlightenment. This does not mean, however, just to sit without any purpose. This practice free from gaining ideas is based on the Prajna Paramita Sutra. However, if you are not careful the sutra itself will give you a gaining idea. It says, “Form is emptiness and emptiness is form.” But if you attach to that statement, you are liable to be involved in dualistic ideas: here is you, form, and here is emptiness, which you are trying to realize through your form. So “form is emptiness, and emptiness is form” is still dualistic. But fortunately, our teaching goes on to say, “Form is form and emptiness is emptiness.” Here there is no dualism. _ Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. 1.bp.blogspot/_fzolLOGJOn0/Rcv35BmfAbI/AAAAAAAAAO4/4i_hG3qIoqY/s1600/petros.jpg
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