"To hear your true self, you must invert, What you use to hear the Buddha's words.Hearing has no nature; It owes its name to sound.Freed from sound by inverting hearing, What to you call this thing?When one sense return to its source, All other senses will be liberated.Seeing and hearing are both illusions, Like falling flowers in the sky.Hearing without sound, The illusionary sense vanishes.When object is no more, the subject is no more. And pure is the Bodhi attained.
Its pure, bright light pervades all. Its shining stillness filling the void.All worldly things when examined, Are like illusions seen in dreams, So was the foolish maiden Matangi - How could she keep your body?Like a clever artist, Presenting a puppet play, The movements may be many, But only one controller exists.When that control stops, The puppets become lifeless.Likewise are the senses, Derived from one Alaya (store consciousness).
If one return to the source, So will the other senses follow.With all illusions ended, Bodhi is thereby attained."
from Avalokitesvara's or GuanYin Meditation on Hearing
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Avalokitesvara's Meditation on Hearing
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