Solving Yourself: Yuben de Wu Hsin

by Wu Hsin

When there is dissatisfaction, it is a call for a realignment with What-Is.

We are already looking from that which we are looking for.

For those who are pursuing the discovery of the essential nature, it is vital to distinguish between thinking and watching the mind. Witnessing the mechanism of the mind is vastly different from being fixated by thought. When in thought, you are absent to what is present, but when you watch the mind, without getting involved, you can discern your very own beingness. Over time, you discern that you can exist without thoughts, but thoughts cannot exist without the energy you provide them. When you are no longer chained by your beliefs and your mechanical responses, you are autonomous, free.

For most people, their mind is their teacher, preacher, and master. They believe it, obey it, and work unceasingly in its service.

The drive for certainty inhibits investigation. One wants confirmation of one's beliefs, not doubts. Thus, the pursuit of the opiate of certainty.

Non-investigation is the string on which all beliefs are strung. It is this very inaction that reveals how comfortable you are in the cell you have built for yourself. Admittedly, the beliefs make the cell comfortable and secure; but it is a cell nonetheless. Most who seek to be free of their cell have simply relocated to another.

A mind chained to certainties cannot flow freely. Treat each appearance as if one is too ill to bother with it.