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The Ceasing of Notions – 01 Pacifying the heart
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
The Ceasing of Notions [or the Treatise on the Transcendence of Cognition]
1. The Master was silent and said nothing
Emmon suddenly rose and asked ‘What is called the heart? And how is the heart Pacified?’
The Master answered ‘You should not assume a heart, then there is no need to pacify it. That is called pacifying the heart’.
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2. Emmon 'But if there is no heart, then how can we learn the Way?'
Master Nyuri 'The heart cannot conceive of the Way; so why should the way depend on the heart?'
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3. Emmon: 'If the Way cannot be conceived of by the heart, how can it be conceived of or thought of?'
Master Nyuri: 'As soon as thought arises, there is also heart. Heart is contrary to the Way. No-thought is no-heart. No-heart is the Way of the Truth or True Awakening'.
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4.Emmon: 'Do all sentient beings have this heart or not?'
Master Nyuri: 'That all sentient beings really have this heart is a mistaken view. To set up a heart within no-heart, in empty heart, only serves to create erroneous ideas.'
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5. Emmon: 'What exists within no-heart?'
Master Nyuri: 'No-heart equals no-thing. No-thing equals True Nature itself. And True Nature is the Great Way'.
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