Hui-Hai believes that dwelling upon the non-dwelling is the mind of the Buddha. He urges followers of Buddha to become men who are unattached to things instead of monks in pursuit of karma. Hui-Hai indicates that life will become not necessarily easy but more enlightening if you throw away your grasp on time, past, future, and thinking. He believes the mind is a powerful tool, but it should not be used by the command of the person. Instead, it should be allowed to enjoy its pure state of dwelling upon the non-dwelling.
Hui-Hai's beliefs would be met with criticism and most likely rejection in twenty-first century United States (and many other countries). In most developed nations, intelligence and a curious mind is encouraged, and if you tell your teacher that you want your mind to enter its pure state of nothingness, the teacher will think you are being lazy. I guess as a woman of the twenty first century I can not really comprehend the notion of having my mind cease to think about things.
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I agree with you. I read this one too and thought it unrealistic. When I blogged on it I said that is seemed to be a description of nihilism. Which as you stated does not work well in our day and age.
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