How to Lose your "ME"

with the help of the Hsin Hsin Ming

Part One

¹ “The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.

Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything.

To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.”

When you have opinions about anything, you lose the awareness of ‘I’…

Only a ‘ME’ has opinions. The latter only exist (in Duality) because it’s them that create it.

Only a ‘ME’ has emotions and feelings, both of which originate from thoughts.

Be careful here, if you disagree… ask yourself which ones don’t?

All opinions originate from the acquisition of ‘Knowledge’. It is the latter that is responsible for creating them:

• Knowledge is force fed intro-aurally and intro-visually into you from the time you are born. You are expected to consume it continuously.
  
• It is actually just like any drug or alcohol addiction, only a lot more dangerous.
  
• It claims, tautologically, to be ‘good for you’ and therefore the more of it the better.
  
• It creates it’s own worth by declaring it’s Am-ness and being-ness.
  

This is just really good… ‘SPIN’ (I mean evil… not good)

Knowledge is good for building bridges and houses but not for understanding…‘I’

Knowledge is the language ‘WE’ all have in common, irrespective of creed, nation or religion.

‘WE’ don’t realise that ‘WE’ are just the dancers, not the dance, the musicians not the music, the brush strokes and not the painting etc etc.

This is the disease of the mind and we have learned to believe that this is what we want and that it is good for us.

¹The ancient Xin Xin Ming (Hsin Hsin Ming) verse attributed to the Third Chinese Chan (Zen) Patriarch
Seng-ts'an.