"Vasistha's Yoga" forces the reader into self-inquiry mode . If I am not the body, then who am I? Vasistha answers "there is but the self which is eternal and infinite." Yes, but who am I? "What is seen as the universe is but a reflection in that self." Maybe so, but who am I? "Regard your body and senses as instruments for seeking, not as self." And after all of the necessary inquiry, years and years in my case, the light comes like the end of an eclipse: " 'I am no-thing but pure consciousness'--such understanding when it is sustained is conducive to liberation." I feel this right down to the absence of my bones. This is the promise of the genuine path if taken with earnestness and tenacity, the promise of direct experience. A chime will rest silent and dormant for all eternity, but place it in the sustained wind of these teachings and it will ring.
"There is a Reality even prior to heaven and earth;
Indeed, it has no form, much less a name;
Eyes fail to see it; it has no voices for ears to detect.
To call it Mind or Buddha violates its nature...."
--Daio
"There is a Reality even prior to heaven and earth;
Indeed, it has no form, much less a name;
Eyes fail to see it; it has no voices for ears to detect.
To call it Mind or Buddha violates its nature...."
--Daio
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