Good evening!
Now we start the spring equinox sesshin. Sesshin is touching the mind (接心)
and embracing the mind (摂心). If we are busy going around for outer things,
we can never notice, see, much less touch, and embrace our minds.
Even if we try to see the mind moon, we cannot see it through clouds, or we see
only the changing phases; we rarely see the full moon. Only when we practice
constantly, concentratedly, do we see the full moon behind its appearances.
As we practice more, we go beyond clouds and the small dark moon phases and
see the great bright moon, illuminating the whole world with equanimity, like
the equinox in total balance and unity – the great round mirror mind moon.
This is the transformation of the base, the eighth store consciousness, into
the great round mirror consciousness, transforming all the other consciousness
as well. Only actual practice can make it possible and perfect.
3/22/13
