Seek without Seeking
There is something in each of you that you will only be able to
perceive when you turn around. So how does one turn around? By
nonseeking seeking, seeking without seeking. This is precisely what
people find hard to deal with or get into. How can you seek if you
are not seeking? How can you not seek if you are seeking? If you
only seek, how is that different from pursuing sounds and chasing
forms? If you do not seek at all, how are you different from inert
matter?
You must seek, and yet without seeking; not seek, yet still seek.
If you can manage to penetrate this, you will then manage to
harmonize seeking and nonseeking. So it is said, "Nonseeking
nonseeking—the body of reality is perfectly quiescent. Seeking
seeking—responsive function does not miss. Seeking without seeking,
nonseeking seeking—objects and cognition merge, substance and
function are one." Therefore you find the three bodies, four
knowledges, five eyes, and six spiritual powers all come to light
from this. Students must be able to turn around and search all the
way through in this way before they can attain realization.
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- Foyan (1067-1120)