Petals of White Lotus: Sabasava Sutta - A Mind Free of Afflictions of I, Mine and Myself

From the Majjima Nikaya, 2.

Mindfulness

“Mindfulness is presence. Presence is in the now.

Now is not before or after.

Now is neither retrospection whilst being in a past nor speculation whilst being in a future.

Now is always past in a future, and so a future is always before in a now and both are always before in a past.

The future is not present but an illusion of the present as is the past in the present.

To be mindful and present in the now is to see the thought before the thought, the sound before the sound, the image before the image, the taste before the taste, the smell before the smell and the sensation before the sensation.

Mindfulness is being neither of the subjective mind nor the objective mind but of the mind of spaciousness and clarity, of being in the awakened mind, the mind of Bodhicitta "

- White Lotus, 8-Jul-2014

No Time, No Change, No Impernanence

"It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is the mind that moves" - Chinese master Huineng (638-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Ch'an - Mind of Duality

"It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is not the mind that moves" - Wu-men Kuan (Huikai): Chinese Zen Master early 13th century, Japanese Mumon Ekai 1183-1260, The Gateless Gate, Case 29. - Non-Dual Mind

White Lotus 17-May-15: Wind, Flag, Mind, moves No Zen. In Zen nothing neither moves nor not moves

Petals of White Lotus

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