Yes you can say mathematics only deal with conceptual analysis
and can never touch the nature of reality, i completely agree,
that's what i am talking about, those formulars in mathematics,i
got to remember it, there is no other way round, if you trying to
talking about direct awareness in mathematics, i tell you for most
of people doing mathematics there is no much direct awareness
around, but only pure formulars, calculation and calculation.
And i believe for alot of people who is in the industry, it's
very hard to avoid concept and habit, if you are a freelancer,
that may be another issue, for industry, they only concern about
the result, no matter how you think or behave, as long as you
handle the job well, it's fine.
Yes sometimes we discuss the 佛法, it's perfectly fine, but maybe
i have this habit thinking buddhism is not so flexible as taoism,
in taoism 无为无不为, it's pure middle way thinking, and very flexible,
but buddhism like many think, it's not so flexible, take an
example of avoiding habit and conceptualisation, you keep
emphasizing on.
i believe this habit and conceptualisation, is not all bad,
sometimes you have to wuwei wu buwei, so sometimes, if
habit and conceptualisation arise, you don't have to avoid it,
just let it be, adhere no interference principle, it's all
dependent on individual person, if you really want to
avoid habit, it's ok, it's your take, if your habit and
conceptuallisation continously arise, you also take it.People
is different ,but dharma is universally true, so i think the right
path of buddhism is the middle path, never go extreme, never
think like i have to avoid habit and conceptualisation,
it's all on yourself, if you want to avoid habit and
conceptualisation, fine, you have been advanced, if you don't
, also fine, buddhism never reject any
single person.
As I said there is no need to avoid conceptualisation for
practical purposes, but when we practice correctly we are not
caught up in any thought, interpretation, concept of reality. We do
not attach to or lost in any of these thoughts. We are mindful of
our thoughts and our experiences.
Like a mirror that perfectly reflects whatever appears, our mind
simply reflects/aware of our thoughts and experience but after
subsiding the reflections are gone without a trace, does not remain
a trace. The mind neither attaches to, nor rejects thoughts and
experiences. The bond of the thoughts will loosen if we simply let
it does its job, subside and not follow them, and remain aware
throughout.
This one Chuang Tzu himself said it. He said “The perfect man
employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing; it
refuses nothing; it receives but does not keep.”
When we are in the condition of the Mirror itself, reflecting
all things, we are not lost in the reflections. We are pure
mirror-like awareness. Pure awareness is beyond and prior to
concepts, yet does not reject concepts. Without using concepts it
is present, even if you use concepts it is still present to allow
the concepts to arise, in fact pure awareness is present in the
thought itself.
So as Lama Surya Das said,
This is the heart teaching of Mahamudra, of Dzogchen, of
Zen, of all the nondual teachings: Sustaining present awareness.
Recognizing the Buddha-nature through the present moment, this very
moment of awareness. If it's awareness taking the form of thinking,
recognize the present awareness component of the thought. If you
are remembering the past, recognize the present awareness component
of the memory. You're not in the past. How could you be in the
past? It is present awareness remembering. If you feel distracted
when remembering, bring the mind back to the present awareness. You
don't have to stop remembering. Recognize present awareness, which
is remembering. If you are dreaming, fantasizing about the future,
about what you are going to do when you leave here, how you are
going to tell everybody how wonderful it was and how great Dzogchen
view and meditation is, that's fine-recognize present awareness
fantasizing, planning, dreaming. Recognize who or what is doing
that present awareness. Know the knower; see through the seer; go
beyond me and mine, and be free.