A. It has neither a figure nor a root, but it is active all the time without staying anywhere. When you go, it makes your body go, when you sit down, it makes your body sit down, and whatever you do, speaking or keeping silent, it makes your body do it.
Although it moves in countless ways, it has no fixed rule. The harder you look for it, the farther away it is, and the harder you try to obtain it, the more you forsake it. It is with you at this moment as usual, and you can’t separate from it even for a second. The problem is that you don’t recognise it. So, it is called an open secret.
What is it that is making your body read this writing now? Once you realise what on earth it is and what it is like, you will have completed your practice.
Student: “What is the true-self?”
Master: “Pardon?”
Student: “What is the true-self?”
Master: “Nothing else other than it.”
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