Perception, perceiving, and perceived

Perception, perceiving, and perceived are not three different things. Your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind are united with forms, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile objects, and thoughts and feelings, are never apart from the seen, heard, smelled, tasted, touched, conceived, and felt. When you cease dividing them up through conceptualization, they are experienced as one pure and clear luminescence. Ear, sound, and hearing, for instance, when experienced without conceptualizing are not separate from each other. The same is true of the others. In the clear and pure awareness of your own mind, all of these are one luminescent reality, none of which have any objective existence. This luminescent reality is the vast unnamable fathomless void.

This is easy to grasp and easy to understand. Nevertheless, as soon as you begin to conceptualize about "one luminescent reality," you have just traded delusion for delusion. Truly, you must simply let go of all conceptualizations and experience it directly.

~The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing

Ted Biringer tedbiringer@flatbedsutra.com

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