XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   brian mitchell wrote:   
      
   > Tang Huyen[?] wrote:   
      
   >>The Sixth Ancestor Hui-neng awoke when he heard the "unestablished   
   >>mind" of the Diamond scripture: ???????? "give rise to a   
   >>thought/mind that is not established on anything, meaning not   
   >>established on the six sense-fields". It may (or may not) experience   
   >>them, but is not attached to them and is detached from them. That   
   >>is the difference.   
   >   
   > My understanding of the unsupported thought is attention without an   
   > object.   
      
   Without an object there is nothing to attend to.  It is not about   
   attention without an object, but about attention that is not attached to   
   a specific object, attention unowned by desire to see this or that, and   
   thus able to attend to whatever might arise.   
      
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