SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY TWENTY SEVEN

"If an eye never falls asleep,
All dreams will by themselves cease:
If the Mind retains its absoluteness,
The ten thousand things are of one Suchness."

All the deluded dreams of the small self can and will cease if we can cut off their mind-runway. By not taking up the secondary narrative that the discursive mind spins, we can stay open and clear in the present moment. Without a follower, the false narrative disintegrates.

If we simply return to the moment when distracted, the Mind retains its absoluteness - its transcendent quality. By staying with what is coming up through bearing witness and simply accepting, we take the ten thousand things as one monolithic Suchness.