The Mind Is Not Cut into Pieces
The mind has no large or small, no square or round.
Am I slicing the mind into good and bad, big and small, grading myself?
📝Reflection
Huangbo said the mind has neither size nor shape. We always measure the mind: my vessel is small and that person's is large, today my heart was petty and yesterday it was generous. So we gauge and grade the mind. But the mind is not an object you can measure with a ruler. The moment we define that shapeless, sizeless thing as "I am a small-vesseled person," we really are caged in that size. The sea does not measure itself as wide; it is simply wide. The mind, too, is by nature immeasurably vast, yet we keep narrowing it by holding up a small ruler. The moment we set down the ruler of comparison and measurement, the mind returns to its original boundless breadth.
🌱Apply It Today
When "why is my vessel so small" arises today, set down the measuring itself. The mind is, by nature, immeasurably vast.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
