The Zen of Advaita Part II

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Copyright 2010 Stephen H. Wolinsky, PhD

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DeiciTo my beloved Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

the ultimate radio transmitter


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Wach Yor SpA W Cu

Nisargadatta Maharaj: Question everything,dont believe anything.

As you are about to go through this book pleasenote that nothing you are about to read is true. It is

merely words which represent things which do notexist.

Please do not all into the trap o words.

Recall two Archetypes, (Current in the ocean that

orm Waves, then oam, (the I, and bubbles).The First Archetype is o the Genie in the

Lamp. In this current the right words, (magicwords) must be said, (chanted) or the genieto appear and grant your wishes, (kind o likemantras).

The second Archetypical current is Using aTreasure Map to Search or the Buried Treasure.(kind o like a spiritual paths searching orenlightenment, the holy grail) o the spiritualquest.


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Why is this important to remember as we treadthrough this series o books? Because all pointers

and metaphors are using words which representand describe things which do not exist. In short,Dont all into the words and language games.

Finally, be aware o regressed tendencyorming precognitive traps that oer pleasureand rewards or understanding and learning the

words and their meanings. This deeply imbeddedcurrent assures only more craving and a xationon learning more and more words to have moreand more experiences with the belie that bothexperiences and words/understanding will leadto the ultimate experience, termed some orm oEnlightenment.

Nisargadatta Maharaj: all experiences willlead you to is more experiencesexpect nothing

rom experiences

As we will see Koans are designed to break the

language patterns, BUT, throw the thorn away,otherwise you will all into the trap o wordsand the joy o learning and experiencing theirmeanings.

With Love

Your Mirage BrotherStephen


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InciSri Nisargadatta Maharaj is reminiscent o the ZenMasters o old. With dialogues representative o the20th century.Maharaj proposed Koan like Questionsand Enquires based and guided by the students who

came to see him.Maharaj oered questions in theorm o an Enquiry through ace to ace dialogue tobe contemplated within. And, when and i theEnquiry was taken in, like a virus it would bothdismantle and unpack belie system which cloudedyour view o reality, while simultaneously point-

ing you toward the reality o who you were. Andsometimes actually describe as best as possiblethe Absolute.

This was not a talent that he worked at, butrather a one shot straight shot, One consciousness,ONE MIND, without any need or interpretation.

It just happened, without orethought or consider-ation, (like everything happens), but appears nottoo.

The text , is words, and as words they representthings which do not exist. However when deliveredOne Mind-One Consciousness, the jolt can be quite


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shocking and disorienting as a chuck o the illusiona veil alls away. For example the miss perception o

an I, or the sense o doership, or beingness. Theshock that I experienced which was sometimespainul, sometimes ecstatic, sometimes disorien-tating but always liberating. This experience odisorientation was representative o the I or sellosing its reerence point and location in the illu-

sion o space-time.The Keys below are a summation o both Zendelivered through the vehicle o Koans, and En-quires delivered in the orm o questions.

So as not to have to re-invent the wheel, TheKeys and Master Keys, (as they represent Keyswhich could open many locks) combine the bril-liance oAdvaita-Vedanta and Zen, along withNa-

garjunas Madhyamika Buddhism the Heart Sutraand Diamond Sutra. Joining these as the ocean,and updating the linguistic metaphors and pointersthus disabling the illusion o mind as a non-existentmirage.

It is through this disabling that the Absolute isrevealed or recognized as an indescribable vastness.In the vastness o the absolute the concepts oenlightenment-delusion, paths-yogas, and God it-sel, not to mention Consciousness-Emptiness, theWitness, and even Awareness all away as patches,

illusionary veils that appear to hide That whichyou are.

Enjoy the rideYour Mirage Brother

Stephen


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A No o t xad LicThe text which is to ollow contains a slightly high-lighted version rom a major work in Zen, called

Master Dogens 300 Koans. As I began the processI realized that by oering the Great UnravelingSeries there began to be enormous overlap. WhenI say overlap. I do not mean necessarily in thewords, but in what was being conveyed.

At that point it elt like a repetition and so thedirection o the book changed drastically. So insteado writing as in the previous work the exact samepointers, what I decided to do was to highlightabout eighty o theMaster Dogens 300 Koans and to

mark them as (MD) or Master Dogen.

From there the text evolved into a book o Keythemes that appear in some 650 Koans, and so aremarked accordingly. For example, (GG) GatelessGate, (BCR)Blue Cli Records), (BOS)Book o Se-renity. All Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes are clearlylabeled and all else as Enquiry Koans. For the Zen

Koans and Zen Sayings which are so generic, Imarked them just as Zen Koans, or Zen Sayings,eventhough there is no source, my prior educa-tional training demands I do my best to acknowl-edge and credit the voice.

Please note the many metaphors rom an earlier


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time and culture have been updated with the intento making the material both clearer and more avail-

able to readers in 2010. I would also suggest thatthis is an ongoing process as culture and vocabularyare constantly changing.

When phrases appear in italics, (or repeatedseveral times) they are being emphasized, in a simi-lar way as Enquiry Koans.

With all this stated, the purpose o the text is tohighlight the pointers and descriptions with updatesso that the reader can ride on 21st century westernmetaphors rather then culturally dependent meta-phors which are 2500-1000 years old.

Moreover, there was an attempt made to or-ganize the Koans, Enquiry Koans, and Sayings tomake this more course-like. However this task be-came very dicult as so many Koans and Enquiresare pointing to, describing and unpacking so manydierent illusionary states simultaneously. Howev-er, what happened happened and what is to ollowemerges as it does.

As a nal mention onceMaharaj was asked aboutHinduism, and Islam and he replied, All o theseteaching are just words, reality is prior to words.

At the risk o being presumptuous, my takeaway rom that was, all pointers are words and lan-guage dependent. As words represent things which

do not exist. Thereore words and understandingsare not it.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:I you can orget it orremember it it is not you, thereore discard it.


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T Clls SkyThe Cloudless Sky

Clouds disperseAn opening

PointersCloud dispersing

A tunnel leading nowhere and to nothing

Enquiry Koans pointing nonexistent attentionthrough the clouds

Parting, you meet the vastnessAlways herePrior to hereEver present

Prior to presentEver Now

Prior to Now

Looking at the background

Poor metaphors:Looking at yoursel

Being yourselBe yoursel


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To many usions with a bad choice o wordsGiving the illusion o urther away rom that

which you areAn experience without vehicles

Another poor choice o words experienceImplying a body with a point o reerence

A rame o reerence

And something you are

The Teaching MasterMust allow the metaphoric meteoric

pointer to appear

Revealing the layer within and beyond

Peeling the layersWithout hurting or harming the nonexistent core

which you are

You a poor metaphor

I a poor metaphorNonexistent not comprehendible

Layers even worse

Maybe its best to stay still and waitFocus on the spaces between teaching and words

The clouds disperse..


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DefiiConsciousness: The airy dust

Awareness: The light and generator o the airy

dust, the lens, the nal sense o beingness

Form: Illusionary solid airy dust

Emptiness:Actually solidied orm, but appears asno orm. Part o the illusion

Essence: Water is wet, without any abstractions.However still water in the mirage

Dream, Bubble, Realm:All perceivables orconceivables

Absolute, Not Buddha: THAT which is not thedream bubble, and on which the dream bubble

appears


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FuciOne o the unctions o this text is to highlight thethemes that prevail throughout Zen Koans Nisar-gadatta Maharaj and updated Enquiry Koans.Beore we begin to ascend this mountain o layers

o material it is important to mention what will bereerred to as Master Keys.

Master Keys like a Master Key which un-locks many doors here denotes a Key which per-vades throughout the enquiry process, and therebyis a Key ar greater than itsel which can pick many

locks and oer entrance.Master Keys will be mentioned throughout inplaces where their highlighting seemed appropriate.


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Master Key:Nisargadatta Maharaj:I you can orget it or

remember it it is not you, thereore discard it.I you can experience it it is not you,

thereore discard it.

I you can know it it is not you, thereore discard it.

I you can be it it is not you, thereore discard it.

Master Key:Most experiences take place in the waking state.

Since the waking state is a state, and is a temporaryappearance it and all that occurs within it is anillusion. The waking state and all that ollows in

it and with it is an illusionary appearance made oconsciousness.

Master Key:No Inside, No Outside The Gateless Gate

Without locationWithout distanceNo inside

No outside

Only ConsciousnessAdvaita: not two

Ordinary Mind (Consciousness)Universal Mind (Consciousness)

Advaita: Not Two


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No LocationWithout an inside

Without an outsideWhere am I?

The concept o Advaita is not itAnother pointer

Not one

Not oneNot one


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Master Key:Conusing words and understanding with some

hopeo realization can sometimes lieat the root othe problem.

Koans drive you deeper into the structures whichhold together the allacies o the conditioned mind

so they can disappear upon recognition.

Appreciate that words represent things which donot exist as a background precursor. This aords

the possibility o oering an understanding.BUT only as a temporary measure to deconstruct

mind sets, lens, schemas, maps, models andperceptual illusions.

The layers or veils which hide the vastness areto numerable to mention, however by pointing

to the allacy o the veiled underpinnings permittheir dissolution and a thinning o the veils o

consciousness.With this as a context preparatory

understanding in the orm oKoans and Enquiriesbegins this unveiling, unraveling and unpacking.

Master Key:All contradictions are in language only

Master Key:Do not trust words, experiences, states or perceptions


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Ky On:Wiu LgugThere are no polarities outside o language

All perceivables and conceivables are anabstraction

Polarities are a linguistic metaphor

Understanding is an obstacleInsight a trap

Knowingness a substanceWater in a mirage

Knowledge o hot or cold, how the water got there,

its purpose, its meaning, or path to liberation isbased on there actually being water in the mirage

Water is knowingnessKnowingness is waterWater in the mirage

All knowledge based on knowingness or water is adelusion

Water in a mirage


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Enquiry Koan: What knowledge is without words orsound?

Enquiry Koan: Without words can discriminationpolarities, explanations or armation-negation exist?

Zen Saying:The minute you utter a word you are in

understanding or choice.


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Ky wo: Apc

PrbmsThere is only a problem i it appears as a problemThere is no problem without a resistance to what

is

Problem are a resistance to what is

Imagining that things should be dierent rom theway they are

The existential dilemma

There is no I doing it

Enquiry Koan: What or whom makes it a problemand why and how does that appear?


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Ky T:Nams a DescsPrior to names and labels

Unusing the name, the label, the experience, thedescription, and the explanation

Underneath lies nothingMU

PS Even alive and dead are labels


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Ky Fu:Cfcg RlsAll criticism is one abstracted map o reality in

contradiction to another abstracted map o reality

All criticism is one point o view in contradictionto another point o view

All problems are in words

Without words or sound neither are

No point o viewNo points to view rom

Without the concept o I

There is no concept o doing

Enquiry Koan: What is subjectivity and selcenteredness and where does it appear rom, and

where does it go to?

Zen Saying;The minute you utter a word you are in

understanding or choice.

Enquiry Koan: What is being?Enquiry Koan: What is nothing?


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Ky Fiv:Evyg IsInedept a

Ss Evyg EsThe sun supports the air

Earth is dependent upon space.

InterdependentInterdependence

Enquiry Koan: Where is the mind?

Enlightenment-delusion are interdependent

Zen Koan:What is my hand? (MD)

Enquiry Koan: What is beyond void?

Enquiry Koan: Where do thoughts go?

No thoughts no where.

Thoughts depend on the spaceSpace depend on thoughts


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Nagarjuna:Dependent origination, Noindependent origination

Enquiry Koan: Where does space appear rom andgo to?


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Ky Six:T Ls:Wiu Fy,

Wiugu,

WiuExsZen Koan:

Student to Master: What is the most precious

treasure o the Way?Master: Dont fatter others or your own benet.

Student: How is it when you dont fatter others?

Master: Even i an entire nation were oered it

would not be accepted. (MD)

G. I. Gurdjie, (paraphrased).NoTriangulation,.No Explanations

To sel or other.


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Without reasons, explanations, justications,rationalizations, or sel deception

Where and who would we be?

Enquiry Koan: What or whom is explaining andwhat or whom is listening to the explanation?

Every word carries with it the illusion o

JudgmentEvaluationSignicance

A point o viewThe concept o beingness or isness

And time

Noticing this is the nature o wordsDont all into the Post Modern trap o trying to

alter or change them!!!!!!!!You are not them

Bubbles and oam

Appearance within the waveWater in a mirage


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Ky Sev:Wiu WiuWithout xed positions

Without dwelling

Without attentionWithout intension

Without attainmentWithout change

Without knowingWithout movement

Without stillnessWithout soundWithout silence

Enquiry Koan: What is without xed positionsmovement, stillness, silence, or sound?

Zen Saying: The vast sky does not hinder, (orhelp) the white clouds rom fying (MD)

Without concernWithout change

Without a planWithout a purposeWithout intension

Without Without


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Ky Eg:Mu WiuSjc-Ojc

Without subject-objectWithout naming, discussing or describing

avoids the hallucinations that appear to appearWithout discrimination cuts to the chase

Without subject-objectWithout subjectivity

Without sel centered awarenessWithout body-centered awareness

Free subjectivity is not subjectivity

Free subjectivity is not subjectivityFree subjectivity is not subjectivity


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Ky Ni:Wiu CmaWithout the state o compassion

Without good or badWithout loving kindness

A seductive illusion

Without passion or compassionWithout Buddha

Zen Saying:Give up the stink o Buddhism

Without the state o compassionAnother seductive illusion

Compassion a seductive illusion


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Ky :Wiu Ss Expcs

Without States or ExperiencesWithout the waking state

Realization is not a state, nor a xed idea you haveabout a state

Nor an imageNor something you can know or know about

Zen Saying:Give up all xed positions, (states).

Zen Saying:The Great Way is easy except or those

who have preerences.

This means all states including the state o being aperson, and the state o the one reading or listening

to or understanding these words is a state, anexperience

A TEMPORARY ONE AT THAT

Without the waking state


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Ky Ev:Seucv DeussMaster Nansen: The truth or searching or the

truth is part o the illusion.

Imagining you can recognize the truth is anillusion

Imagining you can go or and experience the truth

is an illusion, an idea

That which you seek is the obstacle

Zen Saying:The path is the obstacle

The path that draws or pulls you is the problem

Overstaying overrunningContinuing with a spiritual or psychological

process past the expiration date produces dogma,pain, rustration and undamentalism

Trying to get something, you receive its opposite

Master Nansen: Live without intention


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Krsna: Give the ruit o all actions to ME,(Consciousness)

Enquiry Koan: What is it that imagines it can get itor experience it in the waking state?

Master Key:Without Origin, a beginning, a source point

or an origin

Zen Koan:Ryukei was asked What is your origin?(M.D.)

Pointing at the belie in a beginning origin or

source point is critical to realizing its allacy

Questions alsely assume there is an answer to beound out

And upon that answer being discovered liberationis the reward

Dont get ooled by wordsKoans drive you deeper into the structures whichhold together these allacies so they can disappear

upon recognition

Enquiry Hint: No such thing as origin a beginning,

source, or a source point


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Ky wlv:(Wav Fi-Fiv)

(BOS)Reverse Though the I AmThe absolute appears quite suddenly and quite

unexpectedlyReverse through the I Am and disappear

Nirvana means extinction

Zen Koan:(slight variation) What is the last word?

Any answer will suceReverse through the I Am

Reverse through the I AmReverse through the I Am

Ramana Maharishi:Go back the way you came.


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Ky T:N AN On

As all is allNo AllOne

No One

Enquiry Koan: What or who is it that imaginesoneness or non-duality can be experienced?


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Ky Fu:Egmt

Is a SEnlightenment-delusion

Enlightenment- No enlightenmentThere is no enlightenment or delusion

There is not sacred or holyNo ordinary or proane

States within the bubble universeThe waking state is within the bubble universe

Cooling water eels better then boiling andreezing water

Yet all water is still water in a mirage.

Enquiry Koan: What is prior to the mirage?

(hint: Trace backward)

Going in and the experience o going in is astate, an imaginary something


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A very subtle illusion

The waking state is within the bubble universeThe waking state is within the bubble universeThe waking state is within the bubble universe


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Ky Fie:N woThe I and the circumstances are one

appearing to arise and subside separately

One and the sameNeither are

Lie, I and the Absolute are One and thereoreare not

Buddha and no Buddha are one, and are not

One without a one to know or know about it.

Zen Saying:Master MummonAll appearances appear to oppose the one.(MD)

Enquiry Koan: I the Knower o the I, the I, andthe experience all appear and disappear together,then who or what knows them?(hint: Not two).


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Master Key:All metaphors whether provable or not are still

only metaphors, abstractions transduced into wordsrepresenting things which do not exist. So too are

teachings paths and techniques, time bound with anexpiration date

Master Key:It is important to appreciate where the teacher isstanding, to whom the teacher is teaching, and

where the questioner believes they are.


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Ky Six:Frm Wav

wy- Ni(BOS)Stuck Pointers

The teachings: Ultimately a distractionTeachings describing what isnt

I the medicine is not correct the patient can getsicker

Miss diagnosis and over using pointers(techniques, mantras, yantras, tantras) make or

stuck pointers

When pointers are overused past their expirationdate dogma prevails into undamentalism

The rigidity o shoulds xed ideas and positions

An iron Ox cannot moveFixed positions imagining they should be xed

A promise o enlightenmentThe reward or one-pointed blindness

A promise o enlightenment


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Blind Faith with hopeA bitter combination

The promise o enlightenment becomes aguarantee o eternal bliss

The Iron Ox remains stuck without any movementAppreciate the pointers

Throw away the shoulds o always place and

position

Without rulesWithout right or wrongWithout discrimination

When the I dissolves the body is an empty corpseOnly illusionary consciousness remains although

unnoticed

Pointers used ater their expiration date becomestuck pointers yielding dogma, rigidity and

undamentalist positions

The reward or one-pointed blindnessA promise o enlightenment

Blind Faith with hopeA bitter combination

The promise o enlightenment becomes aguarantee o eternal bliss

Throw the thorn away beore it goes bad

Zen Saying:Give up the stink o Buddhism


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Ky Seve:Wiu Diecs,A Is Sam,

PsycgcUcgWithout perception

Without abstractionWithout status

Without hierarchy

Without Foam-bubbles-waves-currentsAll is the same

Interdependent

The ultimate reorganization

Without signicance

Tears and earsThe powerul and the insignicant

Without signicance


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Interdependent

The ultimate reorganization

Interdependent


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Ky Eg: Ius cgs

Without wordsNo rulesNo Path

Enquiry Koan: (Again) Is there Zen prior to the

word Zen?

No teachings have ever been taughtNo transmission

No initiationNo Dharma

Zen Saying:How can a Buddha save a Buddha?

Zen Saying:Bodhidharma never came to China.

Nisargadata Maharaj: Nothing is

Drop the show

Meditation is a techniqueMeditation is a techniqueMeditation is a technique


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Ky Ni: Onus Ls

Wi cZen Saying:(modied) The tree, (student) growsstronger ater pruning (MD)

Teachers needing studentsWatch out or missions or purposes

Teachers: Get over yoursel and dont back down

Students needing teachersTo be expected

Teacher centered Teachers play the students gameusing justicationsOrganizations grow

Students needing teachers and teachings notalways sincere

The onus lies with the Teacher

Student centered Teachers have no problemFreedom rom needing and wanting

The student is reed rom distortions anddelusions


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The onus lies with the Teacher

Zen Saying: When a cut is required, not to cutleaves disorder


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Ky wy:Fm Wav Sv: Chc th Egg(BCR)

Metaphorically a student is like a chick trying tobreak out o its shell.Pecking rom within

The teacher the henTapping rom outside

The pecking must be in unison and harmonyThe student struggles beore they nd

themselves standing outside the broken egg

shell.

Imagining i you break reeyou will, or the I will survive is delusion

When later abstractions like spirituality turn

inward to meet earlier abstractions like sensationsor consciousness this is called purication

Without naming, describing and labelingUntie the knots o spirituality


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Abstracted representations o thingswhich do not exist

Like an enlightened sel

It all vanishes wooshSubmerged like a wave in the ocean

Your original ace is without thought, speech,

knowingness, sound or perceptionWithout a knower a perceiverWithout a bubble

Untie the words and bonds o Gurus, Buddhasand Zen MastersUtter distractions

Nisargadatta MaharajForget me , orgetMaharaj, orget the teachings

It all vanishes wooshSubmerged like a wave in the ocean


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Ky wy-On:Wiu Deus Pemt Ss

Realization is not o a state or xed idea you haveabout a state, that is an image.

Zen Saying:Give up all xed positions, (states).

Any experiences occur in an impermanent statecalled the waking state.

The waking state is a stateThe waking state is a stateThe waking state is a state

Zen Saying:The Great Way is easy except or thosewho have preerences.

This means all states including the state o being

a person, and the state o the one reading orlistening to or understanding these words is astate, a temporary one at that


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The waking state is a stateThe waking state is a state

The waking state is a state

As the absolute there is no such things as a teacheror teachings

Zen Koan (modied)Where did Master Nansen goater his death?(MD)

Enquiry Hint: Movement or stagnation, movementor stillness, why are they one and the same?


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Ky wy-wo:A Ss C BecmSuc PsBetween being and non-being

In love with the sel-viewA stuck point

The Awareness between the Absolute and the bubbleA stuck point

Having realizedRealizing realization

A stuck point

The Not Buddha

The AbsoluteA stuck pointFalling in love with having realized it

A stuck point

States like bubbles foating in the Absolute

No stuck pointsNo place to stick

Zen Saying: When a cut is required, not to cutleaves disorder (MD)


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Ky wy-T:Frm Wav wyWiu Ms

(BOS)Not knowing: the ultimate deconstruction

the ultimate description o ThatEverything maniesting as That is a miss taken

concept drawn rom an idea

Without maniestation

Buddha The Diamond Sutra: We reer to it as aworld, but there is no world.

There is no such thing as maniestationcuts through and destroys the maniestation

concept and all that goes with it

Dont be drawn into the maniestation concept

Otherwise you will believe in the attachmentconcept and be seductively deluded into all thatthat state brings

Beware o believing or believing in believingBecause believing has nothing to do with anything


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Beware especially o what makes sense

The illusion is the maniestationThe illusion is the maniestationThe illusion is the maniestation

Maniestation is the illusion


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Ky wy-Fu:D Bev Mh Decsuc

The Diamond Sutra, (paraphrased):We reer toit as a being, but there is no beingwe reer to it

as a world, but there is no worldwe reer to it as

molecules, but there are no molecules

No QuantumNotice that names, descriptions and labels distract

and delude

There is nothing behind names, descriptions andlabels

No QuantumNo Brain

No Nervous System

Make sure not to believe the metaphors odeconstruction

No Quantum


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No BrainNo Nervous System

Dont all your own bullshitDont believe your own press clippings

Especially your name and orm


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Ky wy-Fiv:Bew M c a cgs

Dont conuse the messenger with the message

Zen Koan (modied)There are no Zen Mastersin China.(MD)

The highest spiritual and the mundane are equal

Paradox

All spiritual and all mundane are without anyseparate, independent, individual sel-nature

Spiritual and mundane are not independent, nordo they exist outside o language

Enlightenment and delusion are non-existentAwakening and ignorance are delusive antasies

Words and actions have nothing to do with thetruth

Emotions, eelings, expressing, experiences andbehavior has nothing to do with the Absolute


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Going beyond the truthGoing prior to the truth and the truth have nothing

to do with the truth

Zen Saying: Buddhas do not know about devicesor going beyond. (MD)

Non-duality, witnessing and awareness temporary

seductive nested states which deny their inevitablemortality

Zen Saying: The Path is the obstacle.

Zen and Buddhism and dharma are ormless andwithout characteristics

They are based on words and are temporaryWhy bother trying to understand or know them

or behave as i they are with a sel-existingindependent nature?

Their reality is an illusion

Zen Saying: Even precious gold dust, i it gets inyour eye causes blindness. (MD)

Dont conuse the messenger with the message

Samurai Saying (slightly modied): Within eachperson lies a Devil, a Saint, and a ool, the ultimate

mistake is nurturing any one o these.


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Master Key:All perceivables and conceivables are abstractions

and observer dependent. Still the metaphor operception-abstraction-transduction are state

dependent and body dependent explanations. Firstrealize the meaning o this, and then throw away the

metaphor o perception.

Enquiry Koan: What is perception an abstraction o?

Master Key:All perceivables and conceivables are droplets o

water on the ocean which is essential.Water in a mirage

Master Key:Without perception-abstraction-transduction

No Inside, No Outside The Gateless Gate

Without perception-abstraction-transduction

no Inside, no Outside called The Gateless Gate

Going in and the experience o going inis a state

An imaginary perceptionA very subtle illusion

Without locationWithout distanceNo inside

No outsideThe Gateless Gate


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Going in and the experience o going in is astate


Only ConsciousnessAdvaita: not two

Not One

No InsideNo OutsideWithout locationThe Gateless Gate



Ordinary Mind (Consciousness)Universal Mind (Consciousness)

Advaita: Not Two

Not One

No LocationNo distance

Without an insideWithout an outside

Where am I?The Gateless Gate

The concept o AdvaitaNeti Neti


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Master Key:Break The Mask O Perception

With abstraction comes perceptionAnd with abstraction comes transduction

As all experiences require perceptionAnd all conclusions about what experiences mayor may not mean are dependent upon all three

More conclusions

More delusions

The body too is an abstraction-perception

To break the perceptual illusions requires breakingthe mask o perception

Realizing there is nothing and not nothing as athing underneath it

Perception-abstraction-transduction is a thorn toremove a thorn




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Perception is a thought a conceptAbstraction is a thought a concept

Transduction is a thought a concept

Location is a perceptionDistance is a perception

Time sequences a perception

Maharaj:Nothing perceivable orconceivable

SAYS IT ALL

Master Key:

Break the Illusion-delusion o Logic

All systems are perceptual abstractionsIn our struggle to make sense o our perceptual

illusions called world with events a logic isautomatically produced.

The logic however can never explain theperception as the logic is an abstraction o an

abstraction.

Once the realization that all logically imposedrealities are abstractions o abstractions which can

and never make senseThe struggle ceases

And the peopled universe dissolves


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Enquiry Koan: Without perception, Where am I?

(hint: Perceiver-lens and perceptions are a thought)

Enquiry Koan: Any perception is just a perception,how is one distinguished rom another

Enquiry Koan: How is it that a perception o a bird

is dierent rom a tree?

Enquiry Koan: Doubt and enlightenment two statesbelieving in either requires skull consciousness and

a sense o a central point to view rom. From wheredoes the perception o subjectivity appear?

Enquiry Koan I all teachings are perceptions, thenrom where do the teachings appear, and how did theperception arise?


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Master Key:The body is an abstraction, a perception

Enquiry Koan: What is the body an abstraction-perception o?

Zen Koan: (modied), Without the idea o body.Without the idea o blood, without the idea o

marrow, without the idea o bones, who are you?(Whats let?)

Master Key:The I sense is an abstraction, a perception

Enquiry Koan: What is the sense and perception oI an abstraction-perception o?

Enquiry Koan: What happens to the truth when theabstracted body dissolves?

Enquiry Koan: What happens to the I when thebody dissolves?

Enquiry Koan: What is subjectivity, and sel-centeredness and where does it appear rom and

where does it go to?


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Ky wy-Six:Wav Eg Nam a

Pec(BOS)Zen Koan:(variation, slightly modied) A dog with

Buddha natureHow did it get into the skin bag?

It did not, the illusionary skin is the boundaries oa bubble

The bubble is a metaphorThe skin a perceptual superimposition

A label

A patchA portal to be peeled away

Dont go in

To presuppose skin boundaries and try to ridyoursel o it is impossible

To presuppose skin boundaries and try to ridyoursel o it is impossible

Realize the underlying principleA thought imagining itsel lying in a skin bag


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A dog is not a dog, it is called a dogThe name o a perception happens to be called a

dogWithout, there are no perceptions nor actions

Nisargadatta Maharaj:There is no karma,(movement or activity), in the state o Parabrahma.

A dog is not a dog, it is called a dogThe name o a perceptionA dog is not a dog, it is called a dog

The name o a perceptionA dog is not a dog, it is called a dog

The name o a perception

The knower is not a knower, it is called a knowerThe name o a perceptual occurrence

The state you are in right now is not you, it iscalled a you The name o a perception

A sel or I is a state

The waking state now is not the waking state Thewaking state is called reality and the waking state

The name o a perception

Buddha The Diamond Sutra, (modied), We reer toit as the waking state, but there is no waking state.

Enquiry Koan: I there is no waking state it is justthe name o a perception, then where are you?


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Ky wy-Sev:Wav Fy-SevOn Wiu Pec

(BOS)Zen Koan:

Monk: What is the true meaning o chan, (Zen)Master Joshu: A cypress tree grows in the yard.

Monk: Master do not use objects to guide people.Joshu: I am not using objects to guide people.

WOWOne with perception

One without perception


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Ky wy- Ni:Wav Sixy-T:

Upcv, Is?(BCR)Unperceived

There is no such thing as existence and

nonexistence

UnperceivedNo such thing as sound

Absolute(ly)

Enquiry Koan: Unperceived, What Is?


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Ky Try:Wav Sixy-Eg:

A Bi Is N a Bi(BCR)A bird is not a bird

It is only the name o a perception

Name is not ormIt is a representation o orm

Form is not ormIt is an abstraction o______

Without name or ormA bird is not a bird

It is only the name o a perception


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Ky Try-On:WavSevy-Fu:

N Bsv(BCR)All are Bodhisattvas

Sakyamuni Buddha said upon realization allbeings at this very moment have attained the Way.

Bodhisattvas vow to help all become enlightened

Buddha:We reer to it as a being, but there is no

being

No Bodhisattvas without the perception o abeing.

No Bodhisattva

again

Sakyamuni Buddha said upon realization allbeings at this very moment have attained the Way.

No Bodhisattva


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Ky Try-wo:Wav Egy-T:

Wiu Pec, NBis(BCR)Without perception

There is no such thing as mind

There is no such thing as Buddha

Master Baso:No Mind, No Buddha.

Enquiry Koan: Without perception, is there a mindwith sky, birds and Buddha?


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Ky Ty-T:Wav wy-Six Rscc

(GG)Inside and outside are an abstraction

Without either abstraction or transductionI dont know

The Absolute is without a mind o dualistic ornon-dual concepts.

Anything in the mind that has a point o view orcommands attention to I is a transduced gment

A gment o what?

All phenomena exists because o abstraction-transduction and much much later recognition

Without perceptionWithout phenomena

Phenomena and the Absolute are onePhenomena is an abstraction o the AbsolutePhenomena is It: A Rorschach Test

There is no connection between words and Koanswithout abstraction-transduction


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Its all what abstraction-transduction, (the a-tmind) makes o it

A Rorschach TestNot you

Sounds blah-blah-blah Without transductionA Rorschach test

...All that is heard is nonexistent...

Sri Shankara

One gains one losesA Rorschach Test

Nisargadatta Maharaj:There is no gain there is no loss.

Without abstraction-transductionMantra, I dont know

How could you?One eye The single eye

No comparisons

Without abstraction-transductionThe eye o non-duality

No non-duality

The Void that is potent with all thingsNo Void No things

No abstraction-transductionA Rorschach Test

Nothing means anything


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Nothing means anythingNothing means anything

Bodhidharma: ... Vast emptiness no holiness...

Zen Koan: From where does the moon arise?


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Ky Ty-Fu:Wav wy-Sev

(GG)Nansen: It is not mind, It is not Buddha, Itis not beings, It is not things. (GG)

It is not mindIt is not Buddha

It is not BeingsIt is not things

All that is... is hereAll that is... is all perceivables and conceivablesAll perceivables and conceivables are abstracted

representations o things which do not exist

Words represent things which do not existThere is nothing behind words, labels or

descriptions

Mind, Buddha, beings, and things are abstractedrepresentations o something which does not

exist

Enquiry Koan: An abstraction o what?


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Anything that is dependent upon something else ispart o something else.

Enquiry Koan: What something is a part osomething?

This is itThis is not it

That is why,This is it...MU

It cannot be communicated it cannot be taughtTranscendence is not going someplace beyond

Rather transcending has nothing to do withanything Transcending has nothing to do with

talking or teachingTranscendence=Not

Mind is a abstracted phenomenological labelThe Mind descriptive concept is all that appears

to be including the knowerNo mind

No all that appears to be

Buddha is the consciousness the substratum o allthere is

The underlying substance o all there isNo Buddha

Diamond Sutra: ...We reer to it as a world, butthere is no world... We reer to it as a being, but


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there is no being...No being has ever enteredNirvana...

The mind is all that appearsThe one that is aware o the appearance is mind

The Buddha is the dream substanceo the appearance

The mind is what it is all called

Mind is Buddha is beingNo mind, no Buddha, no being

This is it... MUAn abstraction o what?


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Ky Ty-Fiv:Drs Shus VaDristi Shursti Vada: The world is only there as

along as there is an I there to perceive it

When the mind appears the universe appearsWhen the mind disappears the universe

disappears

The I, universe and mind are oneThe illusion

The I, universe and mind are one

Death o the I Am and all knowingness whichthe I Am needs to survive is death to lie

Without

Perceiver-lens and perceptions are a thoughtA view into the bubble realm.

Dristi Shursti Vada: The world is only there asalong as there is an I there to perceive it

Zen Koan (modifed): How ar is the perceptiono the world


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Ky Ty-Six:Wiu Pec Rms?

Zen Saying: When the Master realized, the birdsno longer appeared.(MD)

We reer to them as birds and trees, but they areonly names o perceptions.


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Ky Ty-Sev:L s Nam aPec.

All is a perceptual illusionLie is reerred to as lie, but there is no lie

We reer to it as I, but there is no such thing asI

A perceptual illusion


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Ky Ty-Eg: Uv s Nam a Pec.

The eye that grasps the whole universe is calledthe dharma eye.

Prior to this there is no eye nor universeWithout perception


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Ky Ty- Ni: I Is Nam aPec, g

Is PecWe reer to it as The I but there is no I,

it is merely the name o an abstracted perception

We reer to it as The I but there is no I,it is merely the name o an abstracted perception

We reer to it as The I but there is no I,it is merely the name o an abstracted perception

There is no such thing as change,we reer to it as change, it is the name o an

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Everything changes is a perceptionNothing is permanent is a perception

We reer to it as the body, but there is no suchthing as the body

The body is the name o an abstracted-perception.

We reer to it as the mind but there is no such

thing as the mindThe concept o mind is the name o an abstracted-perception.

The knower that is reading and knowing this isa perceptual illusion

We reer to it as The I but there is no I. it ismerely the name o an abstracted perception

There is no such thing as change we reer to it aschange it is the name o an abstracted-perception

There is no such thing as the mind we reer to it asthe mind, the mind is the name o an abstracted-

perception.

Basic YogaYou are not the body

You are not the mindYou are not the doer


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Better said:

There is no mindThere is no bodyThere is no doer


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Ky Fy: Is N ScTg As Tgs

Jaishan told the assembly, There is nothing inront o you, there is just mind in ront o you, other

things are not in ront o you, not anywhere whereyour ear or eye can reach. (MD)

Everything in ront o you is mindAn illusion

An abstraction

The sun, earth, moon and all perceivables andconceivables are not things

They have no origin, purpose, or reasonAbstractionsIllusions

There is no such thing as things

Looking or the absolute in orm sound word orunderstanding is wasting time

The absolute is without orm or emptiness soundor sight


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Uncreated birthless, deathless

There are no such thing as thingsThere are no such thing as thingsThere are no such thing as things

There is no such thing as a substance or onesubstance



Patches

All things are names or perceptions


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Ky Fry-On:Wav wy-Eg:

N Ai PrcWiu FrgmgPec(BCR)

Master Nansen: It is not mind, it is not Buddha,it is not things.

It is not mindas mind is an abstractiona linguistic metaphor

It is not BuddhaAs Buddha is a name or something which is not,

As Buddha there is no Buddha

It is not thingsAs the perception o things is a ragmentation

A ragmenting perceptionA droplet viewing the abstracted ocean

When the mirror is clean, without comparisons,there is only the empty mirror

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It is mindAs the mind is It

As a droplet o water is the oceanWithout separation

It is not BuddhaAs it is Not Buddha

(hint: consciousness)

It is thingsAs waves are to the ocean

Without abstractionsWithout the description o abstractionWithout the illusionary explanation called

abstraction

Without the ragmenting perceptionThe part is the wholeThe whole is the part

No part, no wholeNo one

No non-dualityNo abstractionprocess

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Ky Fry-wo: Nam aPec

(BCR)We call it a birdBut it is the name o a perception

We use a wordBut it is the name or a perception

We call it nothingnessBut it is the name o a perception

Enquiry Koan: What is it that is not perceivable?


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Ky Fy-T:(BCR)40 mgMonk: What is the true meaning o chan, (Zen)

Master Joshu: A cypress tree grows in the yard.

Monk:Master do not use objects to guide people.

Joshu: I am not using objects to guide people.

WOW

With and without perception

The Perceptual Illusion o Sound

Zen Saying: The real chanting makes no sound,and in real listening there is no hearing. (MD)


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Ky Fy-Fu:Wav Six Pecu Ius

Su(GG)Where are you?

Zen Koan: Does the sound come to the ear or

the ear to the sound?

Transcending does not mean Going beyondWhere can you go which is not you

Transcending means, It has nothing to do with

anything.Transcend sound

Is there hearing without soundListening with the eye. location is lost

Seeing with the ear, where is it?

Where am I?

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Attention retreats prior toThe attentioner-knower dissolves

Buddha The Diamond Sutra: eyes are emptyears are empty nose is empty

taste is empty

The empty mirror deceives

Smash the mirrorAssociations orm the perceptual illusion o a whyAssociations orm the perceptual illusion o

becauseAssociations orm the perceptual illusion o

change

What is is without associations

Changes and experiences without associationsNo why, no because

Non-duality has no sound

No non-dualityNo sound prior to sound

Enquirey Koan: Is there Zen prior to words andsounds?

I am Buddha pervading all No BuddhaNo all

One amilyNo amily


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Once sound and silence are unperceived there isreedom rom your own bark

Without perceptual illusions o orm there isreedom rom the perceptual illusion

o orms and now

Nothing comes, nothing goesThe refection o realization dies, and with it you

Forget about your realizationThe empty mirror deceives

Master Key:Sri Shankara, All that is heard is nonexistent .

This statement deconstructs everything as it arises

and dismantles the otentimes rigidity, dogma andundamentalism that ollow spiritual practiceswhen it is used passed their expiration date, or

given incorrectly.People and teachers in particular begin to believe

their own bullshit and all into the belie inthe existence o words and states as i they are

permanent and actually exist.Please dont all or the myth o enlightenment,

nor that a spiritual path will get you there.There is no there there.

Enquiry Hint: Lie and death are perceptions,transduced sound a vehicle or illusion.


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Ky Fy-Fiv:Sus IussUnderstanding requires words and sound

Words and sounds require a hearer and anunderstander

Both require the illusive substance calledknowingness.

Sound must be transduced to orm words

Words represent things which do not exist outsideo language

Sound and words give the illusion o isness andbeingness

Discrimination

JudgementEvaluationSignicance

IsnessTime

Distance and location

The Shiva Sutras:The cause o bondage issound.

Sound orms lettersLetters orm words


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Words orm concepts

Currents orm wavesWaves orm bubblesBubbles orm oam

Zen Saying: Understanding the meanings o allsutras is the adversary o all Buddhas. (MD)

Not Buddha is unreachable through soundNot Buddha is unreachable through soundNot Buddha is unreachable through sound

Not Buddha is without the concept o soundNot Buddha is without the concept o soundNot Buddha is without the concept o sound

Better said,

There is no such thing as understandingThere is no such thing as meanings

There is no such thing as sutra


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Ky Fy-Six: Mg Sua S, Bey

S, BeyPs

Without sound

Sound is not sound

Without stillnessStillness is not stillness

Stillness and sound are appearances within the

Consciousness-Buddha

Without discriminationNo Mind

Without the illusion o sound or stillness there is

no such thing as teachings or teachers

Without abstracted transduced sound no rules andregulations

No path


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Zen Saying:I you all in love with the path, youorget the destination.

Dont use spiritual paths past their expiration date

Without the delusion o gain or loss

Enquiry Koan: Beyond gain and loss is a state, what

state is without and beyond the gain or loss state andthe no gain no loss state?

Without the mirage o emptiness or ormAbsolute(ly)

Not perceivable or conceivable1000 Negations

Master Key:The Absolute is beyond polarities along with its

opposite and are not

Without abstraction transduction no sound,state, or path

Zen Koan: When you meet a man o the Wayon the path, do you meet him with words or with

silence?

No wordsNo soundsNo silenceNo stillness


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Two sidesOne mirror

Zen Saying: It is not the tongue he speaks with.

Transcend: has nothing to do with beyond as in aplace an I will go

Transcend has nothing to do with subject-object

Transcend: has nothing to do with anything.

Nothing comesNothing goes

The background remainsMinus the knower

minus the not knowerminus the not not knower

Zen Koan: (Variation), What sees, hears andthinks?

No words

No silenceNo sel

No realizationSee through orm

See through emptiness

Abstracted-rippling events appear to be ollowingone ater another

Enquiry Koan: Without a perceiver, What issequence?


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Comparisons, judgments, evaluations, and,signicance, concepts and ideas keep fowing

A water alls o emptiness, without emptyWithout sequence

Crack

The perceptual illusion brokenAn illusion o what?

Enquiry Koan: What assumption does OF bring?

The mask o perception shatteredMu minus Mu

Without sequence


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Ky Fy-Sev:Wav Ty- NiSr S, A s h s nxet(GG)Zen Koan: (Dialogue shortened), The Buddha

pervades the universe.

No Buddha No universeMaster Baso: No Mind-No Buddha

Buddha-No Buddha-Buddha-No Buddha

Buddha- No Buddha is Mind Mind is Buddha

Beore-aterBeginning-end Buddha- No Buddha

A dream within a dreamAll practice invites delusion, re-enorcing the is

o I

Zen Koan:(Dialogue shortened) You havemisspoken.


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Discarding concepts and seeking the Absoluteincreases delusion

Enlightenment-delusion a dream within a dreamBirth-death Arising-subsiding

Nonduality-dualitySimilarities-dierences

Subtle visions within the Mind

The Buddha-MindAre all part o the illusion

Zen Koan:(Two Zen Koans joined together), TheMind is Buddha-No Mind, No Buddha.

Sound is an illusionSilence and stillness are an illusion

A dream within a dreamThe Mind

The Mind-Buddha

The knower and all knowledge are illusions

Nisargadatta Maharaj: Question everythingdont believe anything.

The Supreme does not pick and chooseAll perceivables are in the dream

All conceivables are in the dream

I am notYou are not

Subtle perceptions are still(ness) perceptions


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Basos Koan:Who is hearing this sound?

Sri Shankara: All that is heard is nonexistent

Enquiry Koan: Who understands these words?Enquiry Koan: Why am I?

The Knower is a state

The known a perception

Buddha: The Diamond Sutra: Give up allperceptions.

No knowerNo not not knower

All that is spoken is misspoken

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Ky Fy-Eg:Wav FuPr Exec-

Nxec(GG)Die to words

There is nothing behind words

Unassume Unperceive

Neither existence or nonexistence areWhat is prior to them is prior to words

Enquiry Koan: What I is prior to I?

Enquiry Koan: What is it that does not exist, and isprior to existence and non-existence?

Enquiry Koan: Without a knower, what is there to

be known?

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In nature all happens as it happensWithout an I

Telescope out

There is no deserving or earning

Enquiry Koan: What is be(ing), and yet is notbe(ing)?


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Master Key:Here and Now is a popular culturally and

linguistic expression to describe a state o beingpresent. Ultimately as a seductive state or station,

both carry the illusions o a place (a permanentstate), choice (an I which can be present) thedelusions o hope (things will get or be better inthe here and now), and change (i I change and

be in the now or present things will change or thebetter in the here and now).

In the Book o Serenity, Buddhas Second Nobletruth is re-interpreted rom The cause o sueringis desireto The cause o suering is the desire to

change things.We are discussing this because changeis a cornerstone o the conditioned mind.

Metaphorically, as children we are constantly toldto change and be dierent. The subtext in thisprocess is that we or an I can change, and bychanging onesel or other we will ultimately be

satised.

This conditioned process lies so deep as toremain unseen driving and yielding hope pain and

rustration.A nal word o caution as this is explored, Dontall into the trap o believing i I change this

conditioning or worse yet accept things as they are

everything will be great.

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Ky Fy- Ni:H Is N H,N s N N

No Here And Now

The Master was asked by a Monk: Bhagawans othe ten directions have only one path to the gate o

Nirvana, I wonder what is that path?

The Master drew a line with a sta and said, Hereit is right here.(MD)

Right hereRight nowNo here

No now

Not hereNot now

Without the lens o perception abstraction

Beware o abstracted delusions o choice whichcome with the here and now lens

Here is not hereNow is not now

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No bubbleNo isness

Without the concepts o here and now

There is no hereThere is no Now

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Ky Fy-Fi:N H N NTouching reality is not based on a subject with

a reerence point like the I in the body.Nor is it dependent on a perceived or known or

experienced object like a mantra or deity

Rather it is here and now prior to the words orassociations with here and now

THERE ARE NO WORDS FOR NOT HERENOT NOW

Without words or associations or the illusion ohere or now

Without words or associations or the illusion ohere or now

No choiceNo volitionNo purpose

No subject object

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Master Key:The mind and its denitions has more meanings

and qualities then all other states and stations.What is called the mind is what most o spiritualpractice is intended to overcome or go beyond in

some way,The mind is all perceivables and conceivables,

and appears resting like a map, model, or template

upon the consciousness as an abstracted illusiono all that is and appears to be.

What is called the mind is actually a wordwhich acts as an umbrella description, o thoughts,

memory, emotions, associations, perceptions, aperceiver, the body etc. However, as the mindis a word, it is an abstracted representation o

something which does not exist.Appreciating this, there is no mind o mine,and the mind is a structure dependent upon

abstraction transduction means that it isdependent upon the perceived illusionedabstracted body-mind which appears on

Consciousness.Simply stated all perceivables and conceivables,which means all experiences regardless o theirabstracted subtly which gives them transduced

descriptive meanings and signicances aretemporary states and stations illusionary

perceptions perceivable only as long there is anI sense or knower to record understand and

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beingness along with the delusion o, I must begetting it.

Master Key:There is no logic to anything, stop searching or it.

Master Key:The question o ego oten arises within the mind

concept. Like no body has ever seen an electron justits eects. In the same way no one has ever seen ego,

they have only seen its assumed abstracted eects

Master Key:The I and all you experience and think you are is

an abstraction

Enquiry Koan: Where is the mind?


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Ky Fi-On:Ae MIs W

Not TwoWorld is mindMind is worldFoam is Wave

Master Baso: Mind is Buddha.Master Baso:No Mind, No Buddha.

Master Key:Mind and world are made o and are

consciousness-Buddha

Mind and world are one abstracted perception.There is no separate mind, or separate point o

viewAll subjectivity is an abstracted ragmentaryillusionary breaking apart o consciousness-

Buddha

As the mind is an abstracted wave, so to Buddhaor consciousness is an abstracted waveWithout abstraction and a perceiver yielding mind

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Ky Fi-wo: M Is NivIdentities are Buddha-Consciousness

Pain is Buddha-ConsciousnessObstacles are Buddha-ConsciousnessThe Mind is Buddha-Consciousness

The Mind is nonexistentNirvana means extinction

Buddha-Consciousness an appearanceNot Buddha the Absolute

The Mind is Nirvana

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Ky-Fi-T:RlyLove hate anger and greed are reality

Spiritual paths and mantras along with meditationis reality

There is only a dierence in the mindWithout the abstracted mind, none are

Enquiry Hint: The head represents the concept oknowing or imagining knowing will help or meansomething, or is something. The sense o knowing

must be cut o.

Zen Koan (modied)What is the essence o

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Ky Fi-Fu:Wav Ty-Ni:

Yu M Is BZen Koan: Your ordinary mind is Buddha.

Dropping the OF as in consciousnessDropping the OF as in awareness

Just ConsciousnessBuddha


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Ky Fi-Fiv:N Kg,N K,

N KgZen Sayings:Students o the Way only know their

past consciousness. (MD)

No KnowerNo Not KnowerNo Knowingness

All knowledge-inormation is knowingnessdependent

All are illusionary

There is no such thing as a knowerThere is no such thing as a not knowerThere is no such thing as knowingness

There is no knower, knowing, or known in the

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Ky Fi-Six:I G IA Hg S

Master Key:All states are holographic in nature and reconstitute

themselves i any piece is let.

Getting it is not getting it

Not getting it is getting itTwo states

A holographic reorganization

Without positionsWithout edges

Without understandingWithout states

Without experiences

Getting it is not getting itNot getting it is getting it

Two statesA holographic reorganization

I reproduces no-Ino-I reproduces I


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Existence reconstitutes non-existenceNon-existence reconstitutes existence

Being reconstitutes non-beingNon-being reconstitutes being

Holographically


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Ky Fi-Sev:Wiu M Ps

Zen Koan:What is the meaning o Bodhidharmacoming rom the west?

Unpack meaningWithout meaning

Absolutely

Zen Koan:Why did Bodhidharma come rom thewest?

Unpack purpose and reasons

Without purpose and reasonsWithout explanationsWithout signicance

Zen Koan:Bodhidharma is asked, Who are you?Bodhidharma answers:I dont know.

I all is I dont knowAll is deconstructed

No organization without knowing


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OR

Bodhidharma answers: Not Knowing.

A perect descriptionAbsolutely

Zen Koan:Why did Bodhidharma sit acing a wall

or nine years?

Because he sat acing a wall or nine years.

Zen Koan:What was Bodhidharma expecting toget by sitting acing a wall or nine years?

Nothing

Without expectationsUnpack reasons, intentions and motivations

Krsna:Give-up the desire or the ruit o your

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Ky Fi-Eg:Wiu Pemc-Ipmc

Not this Not thisNo gain no loss

No state without gain or lossNo not state without gain or loss

Without permanence or impermanenceThat state without permanence or impermanence

Still a stateBut no problem

Master Key:

Things are only a problem i they appear as aproblem, which usually implies the appearance o

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Enquiry Koan: How can an I which is not,integrate and become something?

Can the sun integrate heat?The night integrate darkness?

The standard o integration and the ideal spiritualis a delusion within the dream bubble realm

Forget standards o behaviorYou are That alreadyYou cannot become it

Being and becoming reside within the delusiono beingness contained within the dream bubble

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Ky Sixy:Bs Sec Nbu Rvs-

N gThe cause o suering is the desire or things to be

dierent than the way they are

It is as it is no reason or changeAll snowfakes are dierent

Zen Saying: A snowfake never alls in the wrongplace.

Krsna: Not a blade o grass moves without ME,(consciousness).

All things emerge instantaneously-simultaneously

Zen Koan, (Story):

Monk: Where are you going?Master: I am going to the place o no changing.

Monk: Can you leave rom the place o nochanging.


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Master: Leaving is not change.(MD)

The place o no changing is neither permanentnor impermanent

Nisargadatta Maharaj: Anything that changes isnot it.

Zen Saying: Bodhidharma never came rom thewest.

(Hint: Without perception)

Enquiry Koan: What is a hand?

Enquiry Koan: Why are you reading this?

Master Key:There is no such thing as change


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Ky Sixy-On:N Rss,N Ps,

N OcucMaster Key:

No reasons, no purpose, no occurrence

Zen Koan: Where does a snowfake land?(MD)


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Ky Sixy-wo:Wiu Ua Kg

Without xed positionsWhat good is understanding

The Shiva Sutras: Knowledge is bondage.

Without understanding

When Bodhidharma was asked, Who are you?He replied, I dont know

I dont know like MU

A key to unpackingWithout understanding

Without analysis

Ramana Maharishi: When you are cleaning thehouse it is not necessary to analyze the dirt.

OR

When Bodhidharma was asked, Who are you?He replied, Not Knowing


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Without knowingWithout not knowing

The two are oneOne concept

Without a bubble universe

Not Knowing a description o the Absolute?

Zen Saying: Bodhidharma never came rom thewest.

(Hint: Without perception)


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Ky Sixy-T:Wiu SigccThe Master was asked, What is the signicance o

Bodhidharma coming rom the west?The Master replied, Ask the Pillar

The Monk said, I dont understand.The Master replied, Neither do I. (MD)

No signicance

Mind and objects are one

Do not conuse this with control or creatingJust oneness without oneness

No good or bad, high or low, right or wrongNeither also is not it

Enquiry Koan: What is it prior to abstraction?

No abstractionNo mind to abstract

There is no way to get to the truthNo truth

There is no nowThere is no here


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Its all oamThe ocean

But not

Without signicance perception shitsWithout signicance the mind gently loses it grip

Without signicance the bubble walls tremble


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Ky Sixy-Fu:Wiu Dly N-Dly

Being it is being itI you imagine you are not it you will think it is

somethingWorse yet something special or dierent rom

you

Nagarjuna:There is no unity (non-duality), thereis no dualityThere are no similarities, there are

no dierences.


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Ky Sixy-Fiv: Is I Igs y

Wi G LsSmg?

Wiu PsWith the sel-I-beingness-perceiver-body as a

reerence point enquiring Who Am I? reinorcesthe concept that you are.

Beware o these relationships

Sel-otherBody-I

Sel-realization

Nisargadatta Maharaj:There is no gain, there isno loss.

What Am I?--Who Am I? is not enquiry butrather delusion re-enorcing the I and Am which

are not.


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As two concepts What Am I?Who Am I?once they are recognized they vanish,

Cracking the abstraction and urther abstractednonsense.

Enquiry Koan: Without the thought called aperceiver lens, where does the bubble-realm go?

Enquiry Koan: Is there polarities prior to words?


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Ky Sixy-Six:Oss A NWithout words and language

Enlightenment and delusionTwo sides o one coin

Appearances

Without words and languageNo distinctions

Dont make it into a problem

No problems

Opposites are true in perception

Without a perceiverNo oppositesNo polarities

No good or badNo right or wrong

No yes or no

No choice or not choice

No wordsNo polarities


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Ky Sixy-Sv: Ius Sa Mvmt,

Wa CusWith or without movement o the mind images

appearThe movement o orm

The movement o emptinessThe movement o movementThe movement o stillness

Waves produce images which are pre-verbalthoughts called nens or Zen,

Samskaras or yogisThey are like currents prior to the wave and later

thought bubbles

The current which yields waves are so obviousthey are never questioned:

I am, I am the body, I am the mind, I am the doer.


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From there the currents orm urther abstractedoam like what am I? who am I? imagining a

solution through enquiry such as, Who am I?etc.

Water Currents


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Ky Sixy-Eg:Ms a E Sam

Mahatma Ghandi (paraphrasd):The Means andThe End are the Same

Its all Buddha-ConsciousnessBuddha does the practice

Buddha receives or not the reward

Realization and unction are oneWithout behavioral concepts


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Ky Sixy- Ni:Wiu DescsDescriptions are an abstraction o an abstraction

o an abstraction

Meaningless skandasA descriptive explanation,like a play o the elements

A thorn to remove a thorn

Without Form

Without solidnessWithout liquid

Without gasWithout matter

Without materialityWithout sensation

Without pleasureWithout painWithout perceptionWithout associations

Without patternsWithout Mental Formations

Without predispositions

Without ConsciousnessWithout appearances which divide into two, sel-

otherWithout emptiness

Without orm


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Without world

There is no such thing as ormThere is no such thing as Solidness

There is no such thing as liquid,There is no such thing as gas

There is no such thing as matter,There is no such thing as materiality

There is no such thing as sensation, pleasure. painThere is no such thing as PerceptionThere is no such thing as Associations

There is no such thing as patternsThere is no such thing as Mental Formations

There is no such thing as predispositionsThere is no such thing as Consciousness

There is no such thing as appeances which divideinto two, like sel-other world etc.

There is no such thing asI

There is no such thing as FormThere is no such thing as solidness

There is no such thing as separationThere is no such thing as EmptinessThere is no such thing as WitnessingThere is no such thing as Awareness

There is no such thing as an Absolute stateThere is no such thing as World

There is no such thing as location

Meditation is a techniqueMeditation is a techniqueMeditation is a technique


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Ky Sevy:Wiu Pemc Ipmc

Without permanence or impermanenceThat state without permanence or impermanence

is still a state


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Ky Sevy-On:Wiu OrdeWithout order or time sequences

Without a hierarchy in behaviors action or eelingsWithout the power to grant wishes or desires

Consciousness a non-existent explanation

Without order or time sequences

Enquiry Koan: Without the waking state can it beknown?

(Enquiry hint: I you can experience it or know it itis not you)

Without order or time sequences

Master Key:Nobody knows

Nobody knows why anything happensNobody knows how anything happensWith or without perception


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Nobody knows where anything happensNobody knows when anything happens

Without perception


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Master Key:Everything is a seamless whole. Remove all the

anthropomorphic tendencies, lessons, plans, rules.Everything happens as it happens, no one knows

why or how.It is as it is, without judgment evaluation or

signicance, choice or what you imagine you needed.

(Enquiry Hint: Seamless is a pointer, a thorn,a perception, a perceptual illustion)


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Ky Sevy-wo:Wav wy-woA Pac D

(BOS)A particle o dust is required or the universe to be

Two is oneOne is two

Words representing the non-existentDust is required or the universe to be

Fear holds the universe togetherI dont know, burns it to the ground

Without right or wrong everything collapsesNo positions

As the Absolute there is no such thing as (ll inthe blank)_____________________

A particle o dust is required or the universe to be

Zen Koan:All these snowfakes do not all on any

particular place.(MD)

They all nowhereNo snowfake

No place


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Zen Saying:Not a snowfake alls in the wrongplace.

Interdependent

The ormer: One depends on nothingThe later: everything depends on everything

A perceptual illusion


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Ky Sevy-T:Wav Ty-FuI A Mu Be As

I Is(BOS)Everything supports everything else

Everything is everything elseEverything is interdependent with everything else

Love, hate, ear courage holds the universetogether

They all must be as they are or the universe to beas it is

A particle o dust

InterdependentA grain o sand is as signicant as I

Nisargadatta Maharaj:You are like grassgrowing.


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Ky Sevy-Fu:A Sem All is a seamless whole

Without locationBuddha-Consciousness

Without cause and eect

Nisargadatta Maharaj: (paraphrased), All thathappens is the cause o all that happens.

Buddha-ConsciousnessA seamless whole

Not Buddha-Not Awareness-the AbsoluteWithout a seamless whole

Without locationNo bubble or a universe to be in

The metaphor o a seamless body as your bodyA misleading metaphor

Implying boundaries

No such thing as boundariesNo BodyNo, No


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All that is and that isnt is a seamless wholeA perceptual illusion

Zen Koan:What is the sound o one handclapping?

One hand seamlessWithout location

Without no location

No sense o I-nessWithout sound

The Absolute


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Nau WiN I


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Master Key:Nature is what it is. Like the sun has no wish to

be hoter or snow cooler. Just as green is the natureo grass. The body-mind has the intrinsic tendency

to produce an I sense and all that goes with itlike choice and separation etc. There is no good or

bad about it.

Master Key:The question o ego oten arises within the mindconcept. Like nobody has ever seen an electron,

just its eects. In the same way no one hasever seen ego, they have only seen its assumed

abstracted eects


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Ky Sevy-FivWav Ty:

Nau; A DgBagWhenJoshu is asked, I heard you have ollowed

Master Nansen, is that true?Joshu replied, Chinshue (province) produces a

great Radhish.(BCR)

All is nature,An appearance made o Consciousness called

Buddha Mind

Nature without an IThe Master is nature

a plantThe teacher teaching is a dog barking

Grass is green

Sun is hotWater wet

Mountains high

A Big Radish


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NatureA chick is born

Nature without an IThe Master is nature

a plantThe teacher teaching is a dog barking


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BIs Cscus


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Master Key:Buddha is a name or consciousness. The words are

interchangeable. All perceivables and conceivablesare made o consciousness. As consciousness is thesubstratum o all perceivables and conceivables.

Buddha as a term might leave someanthropomorphic imprint. That is why, in a

teaching capacity try to stay away rom Buddha as

a term. Consciousness carries less anthropomorphicsuperimpositions.

Master Key:All is Buddha or Consciousness, people and toilet

seats.


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Ky Sevy-Six:Cscus IsN Cscus

Consciousness is not consciousConsciousness is not consciousConsciousness is not conscious

Without plan

Without purposeWithout reasonWithout cause

Dont Anthropomorphize

The mirror is without boundariesas it contains the illusion o perceptionboundaries appear

Even as orm refects emptinessand emptiness refects orm

In the middleYou are not

The size and shape o the universe is determinedby the viewer


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Which is Buddha-Consciousness unknowinglyviewing itsel

Consciousness is not consciousConsciousness is not consciousConsciousness is not conscious

Without Anthropomorphism

Dont Anthropomorphize Consciousness

Not BuddhaParadox:

You are itBut it is not you

Krsna: I am in every being, I am not in any being.

Enquiry Koan: Why?


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Ky Svy-Sv:

B Is A aIs Gu ARising and FallingComing and Going

Similarities and dierencesDuality and Non-duality

All that occurs is complete unto itselA perect event

Buddha No Buddha is he ground o allNo ground

No Buddha

Perception abstraction just a thought

Zen Koan: A Monk asked, What Buddha(Consciousness) is beyond Buddha, (Consciousness)?

Answer: No Buddha (M.D.)

Zen Koan: Where does a snowfake land? (MD)(Enquiry Hint: Without perception, no realms)


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Ky Sevy-Eg:N woThe I and the circumstances are one

Appearing to arise and subside together

One and the sameWithout subject or object

Master Key:

Not TwoNot OneNot Zero

Lie, I and the Absolute are One and thereoreare not

Buddha and no Buddda are one, and are not

One without a one to know or know about it.

Zen Koan:A Monk asked Master Ummon what is

the real religion that Buddha preached?He answered, It is in relation to one.(MD.)


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Ky Sevy- Ni: G MHeart Sutra: Form is emptiness

Emptiness is orm

Form is solidied emptinessEmptiness solidied orm

Form refects emptiness

Emptiness refects orm

Stand between

Since they are one and the sameneither are

Nor are you

No BuddhaNo Mind

No Mind, No Buddha

Enquiry Koan: I orm and emptiness are one andthe same, and neither are, where, and what are you?

(hint: Form and emptiness are part o the illusion)

Not awareness: no such thing as


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Master Key:What we normally reer to as inside or outside,

eyes open equals outside world, eyes closed equalsinside a space within a body.

Without an inside or outside is the sameas no distance or no location. The concept o

inside and an outside are relative to position-identication.

Without abstraction and the perceptional illusion,there is no inside nor outside.

This key deconstructs the illusion o going in,along with the assumptions that go along with the

going in concept.


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Ky Egy: Ius Gg In

The illusions lies both without as well as

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