Unrelated to this topic name... but just some Zen stuff to
ponder.
Zen Master Bassui asks:
My body’s like a phantom, like bubbles on a stream. My mind
looking into itself is as formless as empty-space, yet somewhere
within sounds are perceived. Who is hearing?
He then proceeds to suggest an answer:
To know this subject you must right here and now probe deeply
into yourself, inquiring. “What is it that thinks in terms of good
and bad, that sees, that hears?” If you question yourself
profoundly in this wise, you will surely enlighten yourself. If you
enlighten yourself you are instantly a Buddha. The Mind which the
Buddhas realized in their enlightenment is the Mind of all sentient
beings… This Mind, like space, is all-embracing. It does not come
into existence with the creation of our body, nor does it perish
with its disintegration. Though invisible, it suffuses our body,
and every single act of seeing, hearing, smelling, speaking, or
moving the hands and legs is simply the activity of this
Mind.[5]