BOONDOCK GRANNY TALK

榛芜唉姐胡说八道

Do you know what "Boondock Granny talk" is?

It is talking to an audience, or writing for them, when really all you are doing is akin to "giving medicine to a dead horse."

You will probably convert everything that is said here into "Boondock Granny talk" if you don't pay close attention. And that is what most of you actually do when you attend to Dharma teachings.

You smile perhaps and even nod your head and then will probably go on doing what you always have done.

Yunmen would have declared sarcastically that you are "a windbag who gulps down other people's pus and slobber, can recall heaps of rubbish, and display donkey lips and a horse's mouth everywhere, believing that you can now ask questions in five or ten alternative ways."

Reflect upon that. Do you wish to continue with such folly? If not, then really attend.

You should know by now through the direct experience of watching yourself that Attention doesn't do anything. It simply attends. It is in fact true mindfulness.

It is not "mindfulness of" anything, it is simply stepping from the state of mental repose into alertness.

You all, like "Boondock Granny talk converters," pay attention to the words.

"But," you say, without the slightest attempt to understand," what is there to attend to if not the words which are presented?"

You should simply open the subtle gate to attention and just like one in Contemplation can sit in the "Becoming of Consciousness," you allow yourself the great luxury of sitting in the "Becoming of Mindfulness." Then something else more subtle and surprising than the arousal of "conscious intellect" occurs that requires no pre-preparation and no special instructions.

Your mind falls away from the "Boondocks", that area of the backwoods where the theoretically intelligent have built their cement jungles of power and the Greedy have turned into a paradise of clinging and craving.

Without the distraction of a search for the forms represented by the words, the mind goes to human common experiences laid down when the so-called human creature was really human.