Trust in Mind by Mu Soeng

Author:Mu Soeng
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780861717941
Publisher: Wisdom Publications

As long as you remain in one extreme or the other, you will never know Oneness:

Layman Pang, in the verse cited above, is very clear that he avoids the extreme of holding on to anything as well rejecting anything. So, for him, there is no obstacle or conflict. He stands in the space of Oneness. Trying to exercise control whether in the form of activity or passivity is an impediment to living in the serenity of Oneness. Either extreme is our idea of how things should be; and all our ideas are essentially self-referential because they are rooted in our preferences for this or that. “Knowing the Tao” (or “Knowing the Oneness”) is not an attempt to create an ontology to justify our preferences but the experiential quality of being at ease, being serene, being equanimous in all the unfolding of things. Oneness is Buddha-nature itself; it is not anything extraneous. To be completely at ease with one’s own conditioned mind, without holding on to anything or rejecting anything, is to know the Oneness.

The basic issue here is our habitual thinking in terms of antithetical pairs, opposites—“good and bad,” “active and passive,” and so on. So long as we try to hold on to one extreme or the other, we are in opposition to the other extreme. This creates a formidable barrier to an understanding of the underlying dynamism that lies beyond antithetical thinking.

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