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Mahayana Contemplation and Seeking Meditation
AEN , It is seriously encouraged you to read some chinese buddhist text..
Your Wisdom in English is Wonderful but restrained as English World still unable to explain alot of meditation terms
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何期自性本自清淨 - Hui Neng,
If you ask the Mahyamaka people, they will interpret above as 何期自性本空
Must be careful how we understand 何期自性本自清淨
To understand it as 何期自性本空 is the correct way of understanding.
But many people will misunderstand '清淨' as meaning there is no thoughts, no impurities, no defilements, no phenomena. Our true nature is thoughtless, formless, free of all shapes and colours and impurities.
When this happens we treat our true nature as a void entity, It becomes an eternal, absolute substance 'behind' and contains all phenomena, forever pure, forever untouched by phenomena. This is dualistic and again is seeing 'buddha-nature' as an inherent essence. It becomes misunderstood as a pure formless observing principle, the Witness that simply observes but is unaffected by form.
When this is done,
it prevents us from experiencing the color, texture, fabric and
manifesting nature of awareness. Suddenly thoughts are being grouped
into another category and disowned. In actual case, thoughts think and
sound hears. The observer has always been the observed. No watcher needed, the process itself knows and rolls as Venerable Buddhaghosa writes in the Visuddhi Magga. There is no 'impurity' and 'purity' ultimately.
To truly understand 自性本自清淨 is to understand it as Heart Sutra's �淨�垢. It is not something apart from all phenomena -- all phenomena, all thoughts, all defilements are themselves empty. Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form.
" Know that perception involved with the duality of perceiver and perceived
is consciousness.
Know that awareness itself, liberated from perceiver and
perceived, is primordial awareness: the
dharmadatu."
(Khenpo Tsultrim Gyampto Rinpoche)