August 15, 2018

No-mind

Mushin no shin

Realizing that emptiness is form, and form is emptiness, the mind becomes free to fulfill everything that is required of it. Losing its chains, it understands the flowing nature of reality, and speaks forth uncontrived being. What is mastery then, if not a matter of understanding and gentle practice as opposed to force and loquacity?

The rarefied world of abstraction is the world of the dead and the unreal, the haunt of the academician and the fetichist. Fluidity is the process of life itself, the vitality that arises through the discharge of its own power.

The highest achievement of the intellect is its own silence. Mushin no shin.


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