Spiritual Attunement through Meditation
Oct 16, 2026 · 23 min · 7 segments
Spiritual Attunement Through Meditation. Episode #146: Ancient Zen Wisdom. Today I’ll be sharing information from a book titled Teachings of Zen, translated by Thomas Cleary in 1998. Each podcast…
A priceless jewel.
Each of you has a priceless jewel in your own body.
It radiates light through your eyes, shining through the mountains, rivers, and earth.
It radiates light through your ears, taking in all sounds, good and bad.
It radiates light through your six senses day and night.
This is also called absorption in light.
You yourself do not recognize it, but it is in your physical body, supporting it inside and out, not letting it tip over.
Even if you are carrying a double load of rocks over a single log bridge, it still doesn't let you fall over.
What is this? If you seek in the slightest, then it cannot be seen.
Next from Hsuan-Cha, born in eight thirty-five.
The reality of mind.
The earth and the sky are entirely composed of mind.
But how do you explain the principle of being composed of mind? And how do you explain the reality of mind without form pervading the ten directions? There is no part that does not come from compassion producing knowledge.
There is no part that does not come from knowledge activating compassion.
And there is no part that does not come from compassion and knowledge equally illumining the ocean of essential nature, pervading the universe, completely fluid and free.
Knowing the light and the dark, matter and emptiness, compassion and knowledge equally wind up at the door of concentration of kindness, with reward, response, and reality, independent and free, widely benefiting the world.
The whole earth and open space are both manifestations of the door of concentration of kindness.
This is why it is said that the reality of mind without form pervades the ten directions.
Next from Pai-chien, born in eleven eighty-five.
Action and stillness.
Let your actions be like clouds going by.
The clouds going by are mindless.
Let your stillness be as the valley spirit.
The valley spirit is undying.
When action accompanies stillness and stillness combines with action, then the duality of action and stillness no longer arises.
A priceless jewel.
Each of you has a priceless jewel in your own body.
It radiates light through your eyes, shining through the mountains, rivers, and earth.
It radiates light through your ears, taking in all sounds, good and bad.
It radiates light through your six senses day and night.
This is also called absorption in light.
You yourself do not recognize it, but it is in your physical body, supporting it inside and out, not letting it tip over.
Even if you are carrying a double load of rocks over a single log bridge, it still doesn't let you fall over.
What is this? If you seek in the slightest, then it cannot be seen.
Next from Hsuan-Cha, born in eight thirty-five.
The reality of mind.
The earth and the sky are entirely composed of mind.
But how do you explain the principle of being composed of mind? And how do you explain the reality of mind without form pervading the ten directions? There is no part that does not come from compassion producing knowledge.
There is no part that does not come from knowledge activating compassion.
And there is no part that does not come from compassion and knowledge equally illumining the ocean of essential nature, pervading the universe, completely fluid and free.
Knowing the light and the dark, matter and emptiness, compassion and knowledge equally wind up at the door of concentration of kindness, with reward, response, and reality, independent and free, widely benefiting the world.
The whole earth and open space are both manifestations of the door of concentration of kindness.
This is why it is said that the reality of mind without form pervades the ten directions.
Next from Pai-chien, born in eleven eighty-five.
Action and stillness.
Let your actions be like clouds going by.
The clouds going by are mindless.
Let your stillness be as the valley spirit.
The valley spirit is undying.
When action accompanies stillness and stillness combines with action, then the duality of action and stillness no longer arises.
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