“Let go of and forget your body and mind.” What is meant? “Throw your life into the abode of the Buddha.” What is the abode of the Buddha? He refers to human error in his first words: “Let go of and forget your body and mind.” Instead of referring everything to the comfort, protection, and pleasure of body and mind—which we do—he asks us to “throw your life into the abode of the Buddha.” But where is the abode of the Buddha? Where are we to throw our life? Since Buddha is none other than this absolute moment of life (which is not the past or the present or the future), he is saying that this
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