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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   brian wrote:   
   >Tang Huyen wrote:   
   >   
   >>Just turn your mind back on itself (???? hui guang   
   >>fan zhao, Japanese eko hensho), check your mind and   
   >>gaze into it until you drown in Oneness aka Non-Duality.   
   >   
   >Yes, but we are not interested in content, not the myriad reflections   
   >in the mirror but the mirror itself --in fact, perhaps not even the   
   >mirror, but simply the mirroring.   
   >   
   >But what does it mean to turn the light of consciousness back on   
   >itself? Does the eye see itself, or the knife cut itself? A couple of   
   >tried and true analogies there. What gazes into what?   
   >   
   >An image of the mind of self keeps getting in the way.   
      
   A technique that works for some of the people some of the time   
   might not work for anyone all the time.   
      
   Turning off the light can work, at times.   
      
   Sitting and forgetting, at other times.   
      
   There is no dust.   
   There is no mirror.   
      
   One time a finger got itself chopped off.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)