All the sages and gurus who advocate proper mind cultivation are on the right path. Cultivation is the key to our metaphysical advancement, and the mind is the medium for this function. Of course, the mind does more than that and in addition, be the pilot of our actions. Stories, tales, expediencies, anecdotes are all but facets of cultivation to suit the level of knowledge and understanding, characters and dispositions of individuals. At the end of the tunnel of profundity of teachings is simplicity itself but we can't see it yet until we get there. It is the journey that the mind battles with, much less the destination. Therefore, in cultivation, we have to persistently stay in focus and do the correct things. The Buddha has already imparted to us a non-religious universal vicious-circle breaker: Sila (moral restraint, discipline), Samadhi (concentration or meditative absorption - calming of the mind) and Pañña (right view, wisdom - the arising of). Don't be mistaken that these have to be rigidly observed and treated as non-compromising rituals. Nevertheless, in the event that this happens, He also taught The Middle Path designed to regulate it. In the course of mind development, The Sixth and Last Mahayana Patriarch Hui Neng said, “If you can see your Mind, you can see the Buddha”. In reality, the "Buddha" (God, Heaven, Hell, etc.) exists only in the minds of sentient beings (so-called beings with souls) that have the capability to perceive it. As such, seeing your mind is synonymous to attaining "enlightenment".
In the process of cultivation, The Consciousness (conscious mind) becomes gradually aware of what The Thinking Mind is up to, but by itself, it does nothing except to act as a receptacle (storehouse) for The Thinking Mind’s exploits ...
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Having the knowledge is not enough. Action is what produces results.
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