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it is up to you. If you want to be in hell, you can be; otherwise it is not compulsory, it is optional. Hell is optional!
People who study the path... again he goes on using the word `study'...in controlling wrong thoughts -- again he goes on saying wrong things -- should be like lazy an tending his ox.
He has not understood what Lazy An is doing. He is not controlling his thoughts. He is simply pulling his consciousness out of the world of thoughts, out of the area and the territory of the mind....then gradually a wholesome ripening will take place of itself.
DO NOT GRASP ANOTHER'S BOW
"DO NOT GRASP ANOTHER'S BOW, DO NOT RIDE ANOTHER'S HORSE, DO NOT MEDDLE IN ANOTHER'S AFFAIRS." THOUGH THIS IS A COMMONPLACE SAYING, IT CAN ALSO BE SUSTENANCE FOR ENTERING THE PATH.
It is an ancient saying in China: "Do not grasp another's bow, do not ride another's horse, do not meddle in another's affairs." It is tremendously beautiful, although it is just the wisdom of the people. They are saying, "Do not borrow anything from anybody." Depend on your own resources, because unless you depend on your own resources you can never be free, and you can never be an individual. You will always remain a slave.
Ta Hui says, "Though this is a commonplace saying, it can also be sustenance for entering the path." Once in a while, he says something which he must have gathered from someone who knows it.
Just examine yourself constantly... but immediately he falls back into his own state. This is the trouble; if you are repeating somebody else's knowledge, you cannot go on long. Soon you will say something which will expose you.
He says, Just examine yourself constantly.
That is not the way of Zen.
That is the way of psychoanalysis, which was not existent in those days, and which is not existent in the East even today. And if the West is not adamant, is not prejudiced, and is open to understand, psychoanalysis will disappear even from the West.
Examining yourself makes no change in you.
You can go on examining yourself constantly. Examining is another word for analyzing -- why this thought, why that thought? What
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