Abu Sa’id Ibn Abi’l-Khayer

I like this reading and especially the part about the souls. “Four thousand years before God created these bodies, he created the souls.” I haven’t every heard this before but it is interesting to think about it that way. Giving people a deeper connection of brotherhood before this body. That when we were without bodies we were connected and friends. We are all still connected even though we now live apart. Thinking in this manner can give a deeper connection to you and other people around the world a common love for god therefore for each other. We should all speak well of each other, we must show the same face to all, to bring joy to a single heart is better than to build many shrines of worship. I liked this example of brotherhood and how regardless of our differences we are all the same and we all need to show compassion to everyone.

Huang Po

So I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out these readings about the “Original Mind” “pure mind” and getting rid of conceptual thought the whole time reading and getting more confused about how that is done. You can’t think about it or seek it or even know it. It is all extremely confusing for me and it is starting to get repetitive. Although, I really enjoyed the analogy of the warrior looking for his pearl and that simple thing helped me figure some of this out. He could look everywhere forever and not find it because it is on his own forehead, which he cannot see. “But if someone simply pointed it out to him he would immediately realize that the pearl had been there all the time” That put the search for enlightenment that way it seems to make more sense to me, or at list as much as it can for me. I was wondering if we need someone else to show us or if it could be known without some one showing you.
I also enjoyed the part about your true nature and how it is never lost, even if you are in moments of delusion. It can never die and it shines through the universe. I liked that thought so its there even if I don’t understand it and live in a more permanent delusional life. “It does exist, but in a way too marvelous for us to see”