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True seeing, in the sense of choiceless awareness, leads to new discovery, and discovery is one of the means to uncovering our potentiality. However, when these same eyes are used in observing or discovering other people's faults, we are quick with readily-equipped condemnation. For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know your self takes a lifetime. ManMad is not just the method of concentration or meditation, it is "being" it is an "experience" a way that is 'not a way'. Some times it may become a concentration, and sometime meditation, but there is no fixed form of ManMad. The root of ManMad is a state of being "A State of perception and nothing else - that is a state of being". ManMad is the Awareness of pure being (beyond subject and object), an immediate grasp of being in its "Thusness" and "Suchness" - ( not particularized reality). Mind is the ultimate reality which is aware of self and is not the seat of our empirical consciousness - by "being" mind instead of "having" mind ("no mind and no mind"; "no form and no form"). To think that this insight is a subjective experience "attainable" by some kind of process of mentally purification is to doom oneself to error and absurdity - "mirror-wiping Zen." It is not a technique of introversion by which one seeks to exclude matter and the external world, to eliminate distracting thoughts, to sit in silence emptying the mind of images, and to concentrate on the purity of one's own spiritual essence. Zen is not a mysticism of "introversion" and "withdrawal." It is not "acquired contemplation." ManMad's aggressive mental training is not a mere philosophical contemplation on the effervescence of life or a frozen type of mold, but an entrance into the realm of no relativity and it is real.



'Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody, it is there when the mind is very quiet listening timelessly to every thing'

1. The absence of a system of stereotyped techniques.
2. The "fitting-in" spirit.
_Technical skill is to be subordinate to the psychic training, which will finally raise the practitioner even to the level of high spirituality. He is no more himself. He moves as a kind of automaton. He has given himself up to an influence out side his everyday consciousness, which is no other than his own deeply buried unconscious, whose presence he was never hitherto aware of.
To bring the mind into sharp focus and to make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is every where, the mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought process, and even ordinary thought itself.

Three components
1.Absence of thought is the doctrine : and it means not to be carried away by thought in the process of thought - not to be defiled by external objects - to be in thought yet devoid of thought.
2."Absence of stereotyped technique" as the substance in order to be total and free.
3. Nonattachment as the foundation.

_All line and movements are the function.

It's man's original nature - in its ordinary process, thought moves forward without a halt, past, present and future thoughts continue as an unbroken stream. 'Absence' means freedom from duality and all defilements. 'Thought' means thought of Thusness and self nature. True Thusness is the substance of thought and thought is the function of true Thusness.
To Meditate means to realize the imperturbability of one's original nature. Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. there will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. True Thusness is without defiling thought; it can be known through conception and thought. There is no thought except that of the true Thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible. The mind is originally without activity; the way is always without thought.

By knowledge is meant knowing the emptiness and tranquility of the mind. Insight means realizing hat one's original nature is not created. Being empty means having no appearance, having no style or form to let opponent work on. Being tranquil means not having been created in its Thusness - not being created means not having any illusions or delusions.

Separation
It is inexpressible because as soon as one tries to express is itself a thing, which means that by so doing one remains in the state of being linked with things. Have no mind that selects or rejects. To be without deliberate mind is to have no thoughts.
There is no need to exert oneself in special cultivation outside the daily round of living. There is no difference between such enlightenment and what is ordinarily termed knowledge, for in the latter a contrast exists between the knower and the known, whereas in the former there can be no such contrast.

Meditation
A simple mind surely is one that functions, that thinks, and feels, without a motive. Where there is a motive there must be a way, a method, and a system of discipline. The motive is brought about by the desire for an end, for a goal, and to achieve that goal there must be away, etc. meditation is a freeing of the mind from all motives.
Acceptance denial and conviction prevent understanding - let your mind and speaker's mind move together in understanding, with sensitivity then there is a possibility of real communion with each other. To understand, surely, there must be a state of choice less, awareness in which there is no sense of comparison or condemnation, no waiting for a further development of the thing we are talking about in order to agree or disagree - don't start from a conclusion above all.

'All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability, the truth is out side of all fixed patterns'.

The Three faults
1. The invention of an empirical self that observe itself
2. Viewing one's thought as a kind of object or possession, situating it in a separate, isolated "part of itself" - "I have" a mind.
3. The striving to wipe the mirror
This clinging and possessive ego-consciousness, seeking to affirm itself in "Liberation," craftily tries to outwit reality by rejecting the thoughts it "possesses" and emptying the mirror of the mind, which it also "possesses"-emptiness itself is regarded as a possession and an "attainment."

There is no enlightenment to be attained and no subject to attain it.

Zen is not "attained" by mirror-wiping meditation, but by "self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now." We do not "come", we "are". Don't strive to become, but be.
The void (or the unconscious) may be said to have two aspects:
1. It simply is what it is.
2. It is realized, it is aware of itself, and to speak improperly, this awareness is "in us", or better, we are "in it."

It is to see things as they are and not to become attached to any thing - to be unconscious to be innocent of the working of a relative (empirical) mind - when there is no abiding of thought anywhere on anything - this is being unbound. This not abiding anywhere is the root of our life.
Prajna is not self-realization, but realization pure and simple, beyond subject and object. To see where there is no something (object) - this is true seeing; the seeing is the result of having nothing to stand on. It is simply "pure seeing," beyond subject and object, and therefore "no seeing." Zen Liberates the mind from servitude to imagined spiritual states as "objects," which too easily become hypostatized and turn into idols that obsess and delude the seeker.

Pure seeing "Non seeing" and no mind are not renunciations but fulfillment. The seeing that is without subject or object is "pure seeing"

The direct awareness in which is formed "truth that makes us free" - not the truth as an object of knowledge only, but the truth lived and experienced in concrete existential awareness.

There exists, in the world, systems that are mechanical, classical, "no soul". The intelligent people feel that such systems... are" frames "that can kill the life of freedom of expression by their too rigid limitation. They feel that such practices are merely "doing" and not" being". Instead of promoting inward experience, the routines and workouts are imitative repetition, a mere product. Furthermore, these people feel that an ideology is a mere projection of hope. If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

We are always in the process of becoming and nothing is fixed. have no rigid system in you and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open your self and flow at once with the total flowing now. Fluidity and emptiness are convertible forms.

Adequate form requires individuality rather than imitative repetitiousness, brevity rather than bulkiness, clarity rather than obscurity, simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

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