Excerpt from The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing by Ted Biringer

Louie Wing said, "Ceasing conceptualization is easy to understand, but it is difficult to put into practice. Some students become frustrated and run off to remote areas or mountain retreats to escape the activities of the real world. They sit in dark, quiet temples with their tongues pressed to the roofs of their mouths listening to themselves breathe. Some of them waste away their whole lives like that. That is not ceasing conceptualization; that is ceasing to be human.

True cessation consists of dwelling in the pure and clear luminous awareness of your own mind at all times and places. Abiding within the void and participating in the world are not two separate things. All activities are void; the void is all activities. Do not be deluded by false teachers dressed up like ancient Chinese hermits. If they have not awakened to true nature, Americans who shave their heads and wear Asian robes are simply poseurs." --From The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing: The Second Ancestor of Zen in the West by Ted Biringer Copyright 2008

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