A Commentary Literature on ‘Faith in Mind’

Chapter 24 Perfect Detachment

By Wong Weng Hon

Bound by thoughts

you depart from the real

And sinking into a stupor is as bad

To be bound by thoughts is to be carried by the thoughts which are actually conceptual proliferation. Conceptual proliferation defiles the mind with taints or cankers. This is called the disease of the mind because the knowledge of the conventional truth conceals the knowledge of the highest Truth. The appearance veils the Reality. At times, one may not be thinking of anything but plunges oneself into a foggy state. This is equally bad as mindfulness is destroyed. Sometimes, when one is exhausted, one’s mind is blank. This is also undesirable as vigilant mindflness is lost. Both fogginess and blankness are attachments. Though there are no thoughts, the subtle attachment to no-thoughts is still there. It is not Emptiness in the true sense of cultivation. Emptiness is perfect non-attachment or perfect detachment from all activities of the senses. Perfect non-attachment or perfect detachment does not connote cessation of senses. It connotes that one is mindfully wise enough to manage the senses without defilement. The Buddha-mind of True Self directs and empowers all sensual activities rather than they are directed and empowered by ordinary mind of the false self. The mundane life is spiritualized with the perfection of wisdom.  

To be continued ….