Methods of Contemplation

Everything we do, and even the particular way we do it is the manifestation of our interior disposition.

If we are conflicted internally, our conduct will likewise display that same division. Internal conflict is itself the direct expression of our self-understanding. The more an illusory self dominates our direct apprehension, the more our volitional capacity is attenuated, split, divided, diffracted. The more our action is influenced by wrong understanding, the more harm we enact on others, which is to say on our self. In the end—which is additionally the beginning and the middle—outer, inner, and secret are all the arising of the same basic space.

The less we perpetuate wrong-mindedness by dividing the open expanse of knowledge, will, and action, the more we become refuge ourselves.