You would say it is "liberation", but with the water squeezed out, air comes in. You are still full of air!
ZHANG, Cheng:
In terms of “things changed and stars moved”,
it is not so much of the liberation as they call because there is no subject at all as the “Liberator”.
Yet, you at your level, compared with mine, have liberated yourself from a lot of things.
Message:
This is because I am more relaxed and more mind-emptying than you!
Essence is great.
If you empty your mind and go back to essence, which is not the tiny you as you know but anything, including the surrounding air, that can be merged;
I can also be your strength.
ZHANG, Cheng:
I think it is fair to say that to mind-emptiness is endless when a person is OPEN and mind-emptying. “An empty mind” does not define itself, nor is it “a self", let alone defining what the "ultimate" is.
Message:
What are we thinking when we think about "liberation"?
Do we think of it as a "look"? Or is it a "change" and an "action"?
For example, you can define liberation as the fact that you drain water,
breathe in air and then feel lighter.
But after all, air still comes in!
ZHANG, Cheng:
Ha ha! I find this analogy very interesting! ——So, do you think that Buddha is “liberated”?
Message:
(laughing) He is entangled with you here and now. Do you think he is liberated?
ZHANG, Cheng:
You know, what people assume is that according to Buddha’s teachings and the process of spiritual practice, some day they will "have no attachment”.
Message:
When you drain water and air comes in, you feel a lot lighter and call it a “liberation”. But you can also drain air to let smaller particles in, so you feel lighter again, and this again is a “liberation”.
Why not simply remove the entire sponge?
Isn’t it a greater liberation?
Then, when you are no longer conscious of being a sponge, you will no longer absorb anything. This should be the liberation you want. However, the stream of consciousness just turns into something else, perhaps a stone.
ZHANG, Cheng:
Couldn’t there be a complete evaporation?
Message:
No, it is just a stream of consciousness.
Evaporation is an explosion, an energy.
This energy can gather and absorb all the time,
but it does not absorb, either,
because its absorption does not stand for its existence.
It is simply a flowing consciousness.
ZHANG, Cheng:
Is it setting no limit on oneself totally and completely?
Message:
The Tai Chi Diagram is quite interesting. It is just a flow.
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ZHANG, Cheng:
Isn't that what we are now?
Even if we feel we have attachments, aren’t we keep changing?
Nor can we keep this attachment.
Message:
Yeah. So when people ask these questions, they just have some "wants".
When you are thinking about these questions, some cells are dying!
Some cells are regenerating!
No matter what you want, it is still living and dying;
it is constantly changing!
ZHANG, Cheng:
So, some say that life itself is liberated.
Message:
If he thought so at that time, it would be so.
“Liberation” is not a realm, but an action.
M:
(a moment of silence) It is going to talk about liberation from another angle.
Message:
When you want something,
you can immediately find that path
and reach the feeling when you do not need it; that is liberation.
M:
When you have a thought that you need something……
I am a little uncertain about how to say it……
For example, when you want to have a closet,
but you can immediately think of the fact that you will still be very much at ease even if you do not have it.
If you are in the habit of this pattern, this is “Liberation”.
We do not need to talk big about “Liberation”.
Liberation can be achieved in every little thing.
This is liberation.
If we talk about "liberation" in religions and look for it as an image,
then it is just human greed
because anything can change its forms.
It's better off to say that liberation loosens the moments between thoughts.
ZHANG, Cheng:
Right. But one cannot imagine "who" is “liberated”, or in a "state of liberation”. Earlier the analogy is about this.
Message: Do not turn “liberating” into a “noun”.
ZHANG, Cheng:
Yes! That's great! It is easy to understand! One cannot assume "who" "owns" "liberation".
Message:
When you have "assumption", you have confined yourself to a frame.
ZHANG, Cheng: Therefore, if you pursue "liberation" as a goal or a realm, you basically do not understand "liberation".
Message: Um.
If you really understand it, you won't even ask such a question as “ultimate liberation”,
which is an action for you.
When you are wanting something,
you know what you can also do without it.
When you decide to want it, you have the sense of easiness
because you can do without it. This is liberation.
ZHANG, Cheng: I think it well-said. Then, what does "Buddha" mean in our culture?
Message: Buddha is "awareness", "comprehension" and "clarity".
The appearance of this word is to help you become "aware" and "clear".
Buddha stands for "a path that allows you to be aware and clear".
When you have grasped the meaning of Buddha,
you yourself can “change things and move stars" with it;
that is, you can transform yourself––chemical changes at the level of consciousness.
M: It suddenly expands itself to a huge concept.
This means that you can transform into many faces and forms.
You will not be attached to only one form of answer.
ZHANG, Cheng: How do you think I can share our discussion of such subtlety?
Message: Your question is how to make "more people" be clear about the meaning and the path of this liberation.
If the readers of these articles choose to peacefully listen through their hearts and apply to their lives,
slowly they will become more and more clear
and the so-called “Buddha nature" will slowly open up.
ZHANG, Cheng:
These materials are very useful to me, but some may find it too distant.
Message:
No need to worry about this.
It is not just us who are doing these jobs in the world.
Quite many and great energies are also doing jobs to awaken people’s hearts.
The stream of consciousness has also been pushing.
Compared to what you see as the so-called "sinister" social events on TV,
these efforts are actually the majority!
Don't face and examine the outside world with your mind.
Use your heart of essence.
M: This "mind" refers to the "fear" that you mentioned earlier,
but apart from fear, it includes "greed" and "sex addiction”.
Here, "sex" stands for something in a broad sense,
which generally refers to feeling attraction for an image, which is called "sex".
Zhang Cheng: Do you have any suggestion for me in this class?
Message: Just relax. Do not be too fast.
M: “Do not be too fast” is my words!
I think it is what it means by "relax".
Message:
You take these lessons at ease.
Naturally, the messages will keep coming.
You do not have to share these with others hastily because slowly,
people who want to know will also come.
People who have read these words, their hearts are slowly coming.
This is the energy of black holes.
Endless circulation of the past, present and future
Boundless vast of the ten directions
ZHANG, Cheng:
Earlier you mentioned countless black holes. What does this mean?
Message:
Different black holes are compared to different computers as an analogy of the Internet.
Computers are countless;
the immense resources and endless circulation brought by computer connection to the Internet are compared to essence.
The reason for using the phrase "black holes" for description is that
when you go in, simultaneously others come out.
Just like when your computer is connected to the Internet, you can get the resources of others’ computers,
and other computers can also get the resources of your computer.
Therefore, other computers can be said to have accessed your computer.
It is like the energy conversion of "black holes”,
which are an adjective to describe this conversion, not a noun.
M: Just like when 100 million people enter the website of the Athens Olympics, the contents about the Athens Olympics go to 100 million different people at the same time.
This is the energy of black holes.
Although you only enter the website of the Athens Olympics,
the content from your computer can be obtained by others if they want.
Therefore, your resources are also shared by hundreds of millions of people.
"The energy of the black holes" is used to describe this scenario.
ZHANG, Cheng:
Oh! Therefore, the "energy of black holes" does not refer to a "thing", but is describing "what is happening.”
M:
Right, it is a bilateral, multidirectional circulation, circulation to the power of N. (Meaning infinite multiplication)
So the essence of "you" is infinitely immense––if you do not set limits on yourself.
ZHANG, Cheng:
So, all existence is my essence—because I can reach it all, and I can not even use the word “reach” since “you” or “I” am inseparable.
Message:
When you let go, loosen, and return to the essence, your heart is connected and immense. In fact, you already have everything you want. Is it reckoned to be what you mean by "liberation"?
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