DEC 20

~ The book of Balance and Harmony 
I see people practicing meditation nowadays who drift into all sorts of imaginations as as they close their eyes. Once they have entered the realm of deception, they become aware one with their delusions, quite unaware. Sometimes they become aware of it, but are not able to drive the delusions away. They have all their ordinary sense faculties, but they are not able to use them freely; they are confused by imaginations and are unable to put them aside. Since they cannot be free right now, how can they be free on the border of life and death?

~ The book of Balance and Harmony
Establish firm resolve, keep the mind from doubt, directly bring about bare clean open clarity, not allowing any defiling attachment or fixation-then this is the pure spiritual body.
If you do not cling to appearance, appearance will not cling to you. If you are not obsessed with anything, nothing will hold you. If you do not watch anyone, no one will watch you. If you do not mind anything, nothing will mind you. If you do not focus on any sensations, no sensations will focus on you.

The book of balance and harmony 
Gathering real knowledge in open serenity
Is done without contrivance;
Promoting the fire of consciousness
Is done with openness as the bellows.
Extracting and adding,
Increasing and decreasing,
All depend on openness;
Upon shattering space,
One attain great awakening.

The book of balance and harmony 
Polish the light, remove accretions,
Dissolve accumulated burdens,
Clarify the mind,
Be free of addictive habituation.
Submerge the mind in the subtle,
Sense and penetrate;
You will drink an endless river
In a single gulp.

Discipline means to forget emotions when confronting experiences and not to be affected by objects. Concentration means utter sincerity and truthfulness, without vagary, not moving or shifting. wisdom means adapting efficiently according to events, without partiality or bias. To be disciplined, to be concentrated, to be wise, the three require one another. Going from effort to end up in spontaneity, they merge into one essence, ultimately leading to the state of non-conscious purity.
Before arriving at purity, the three are necessary; having arrived at purity, the three merge and sublimate spontaneously. If the three and one are not forgotten, it still is not pure meditation.
One of verses says, " When the mind is astray, the Teaching must be used to review it; when the mind is enlightened, The Teaching is no longer necessary."
Buddha