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only by an enlightened master.
Ta Hui has collected, from here and there, whatever he felt seems to be significant. But he had no inner criterion to judge what is the authentic path of self-realization. He was going to all kinds of teachers, and he was collecting all kinds of contradictory thoughts.
He was an intelligent man, but intelligence alone is not able to conceive the nature of your being. It falls short.
IF YOU CANNOT SEE THROUGH THEM, THEN THE MOMENT A WRONG THOUGHT COMES UP YOU SHOULD QUICKLY CONCENTRATE YOUR MENTAL ENERGY TO PULL YOURSELF AWAY.
First, every thought is wrong.
Second, you don't have to pull your mental energy away, because mental energy is the root of all your thoughts. It is the mother of all your thought processes, good or bad. The mental energy has not to be pulled away. You have to get out of the mental energy, out of the mess of mental energy; you have to pull yourself out.
You have to stand out of your mind, as a watcher. Whatever is going on in the mind, you don't even interfere. You simply watch. You simply go on seeing it, as if it is somebody else's mind, and you have nothing to do with it -- it is none of your business.
In this indifferent aloofness, all thoughts disappear.
And with thoughts disappearing there is no mind, because mind is nothing but a collective name of thoughts.
Ta Hui does not know anything about meditation. He has never meditated.
IF YOU ALWAYS FOLLOW THOSE THOUGHTS AND LET THEM CONTINUE WITHOUT A BREAK, NOT ONLY DOES THIS OBSTRUCT THE PATH, BUT IT MAKES YOU OUT TO BE A MAN WITHOUT WISDOM.
He knows nothing about wisdom. He is using a wrong word. Whatever he is saying... only one thing can be said: If you allow thoughts to continue without a break, this will not only obstruct the path, but it makes you out to be a man without knowledge -- not without wisdom.
That also has to be clearly seen. Knowledge is absolutely relevant in science. The very meaning of the word `science' is knowledge, and the whole effort of science is to go on changing the unknown into the known. The ultimate goal of science is that one day there will be
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