The Tracks of the Ox

Book Id: WPLBN0000708306
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Tracks of the Ox
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Language:	English
Subject:	Religion, Buddhism, Buddhism and literature
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Excerpt: ...Whichever theme you focus on, be earnest with it, keeping mindfulness in constant touch with the work you are doing. For example, if you're focusing on the repetition of buddho, keep constantly aware of the word buddho, buddho, as if there were nothing else left in the world for you to become two with this or three with that. There is only one thing: the word buddho blending step by step with your awareness. As the mind becomes more and more still, the buddho you are repeating will more and more blend into one with your awareness. Then the word buddho, buddho will fall silent, leaving only an awareness that's more conspicuous than before. This means that you've reached the mind. To put it in terms of following the tracks of an ox, you've reached the ox and can let go of its tracks. Here you've reached the inner Buddha, which is like the ox, so now you can let go of the meditation word.