Commentary:
The mind is scattered or not concentrated because of the wrong view of duality or discrimination between things. Even when the mind is exalted into the one-mind state - the vision of Unity of the cosmos, one should not even be attached to this state of one-mind – the vision of the Unity of the world behind the multiplicity of the world or cosmos. Unity is the Absolute Truth while multiplicity is the cosmic illusion. When the wise has discerned the Unity of the world or cosmos, he develops the no-mind state. No-mind does not imply no thought or the cessation of human thought. It implies the cessation of false imagination or erroneous conceptualizations after self-realizing the Oneness or Unity of the all phenomena (cosmic Unity). All phenomena do not exist as independent self-contained entities with their individual signs, marks or characteristics designated linguistically. Before one perceives intuitively the Unity of the world or cosmos, one perceives individual signs marks or characteristics of the myriad beings or diversifying differentiations of the world or cosmos. Diversification or differentiation is actually illusive and unreal. Having Self-realized through Self-awakening to the illusion of the multiplicity and the Absolute Truth of Unity, the wise perceives the defects of the conventional knowledge of the multiplicity of the world, cosmos or conventional view of dualism. The true nature of all phenomena are that they are signless,markless or characteristicless. Succintly put, they are all empty of their respective self-natures or intrinsic natures.
The False or ignorant Mind of the ordinary worldlings perceive the Many or the Multiplicity while the True or Enlightened mind of the wise or saints perceive the Unity or Oneness of the world. One, who discerns One in Many and Many in One without the obstruction between phenomena and the Principle, is said to have attained the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajñāpāramitā). This Perfection of Wisdom is the Buddha’s central tenet of Middle Path which transcends the pair of extreme views of absolute Existence and absolute Non-existence. This Middle View is known as the Right View of Dependent Co-arising (Pratītyasamutpāda) or Emptiness (Śūnyatā). The Buddha says, “ I preach the doctrine by the middle.” The Middle View is transcending the pair of extreme views of absolute existence and absolute non-existence (Mahākaccāyana-gotta-sutta.S.N).
To be continued ….
