Personal Responsibility

Personal responsibility is the most important issue to reexamine life and death. Even a mountain, river or great wall cannot obstruct this. Whether entering or exiting, whether coming or going, it is free and divine.

It will cross over the ocean of the life-and-death and the mountains of karma; all kinds of karma cannot imprison this truth-body.

Such a mind is so hard to see because it is deep-rooted. The mind is different from the physical material; that is, the mind is this God. Everyone wishes to see mind; yet, already he is in the midst of this bright light; moving his arms and legs in as many ways as the sands of the Ganges River; yet, as soon as he is questioned about what it is, he is absolutely silent, like a puppet. These movements are his own actions. Why can this not be known? Buddha said,

All indigent-beings are confused and from this, they produce their future Consequences, falling into the ocean of the life-and-death, they are trying to escape from it, but, instead, are falling back in. Why? Just because the self-nature was not yet seen.

If all indigent beings are not confused, why does no one 'see' when they are questioned? Why can't one know the one who moves arms and legs? Even though the words spoken by all sages were right, still, they are unknown.

Therefore, you should know that it is difficult to comprehend the mind but this is your personal responsibility; Buddha being the only one who has completed it. If the mind were understood clearly by wisdom; it might be called, 'Truth-Nature' or 'Complete Liberation.' Because life-and-death cannot hinder the mind and all truth cannot control it. Sometimes it is called 'The Unthinkable One.' Sometimes it is called, 'The True Body-of-the-Sage.' Sometime it is called, 'The-Eternal-Life-Without-Death.'

All the differentiations made by the divine-beings are not separated from the mind in itself; the mind has immeasurable size and its function is limitless. Acting with eye, it sees color, with ear it hears, with nose it smells, and with tongue it tastes. All different actions are self-mind.

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