Bringing the Mind Back Home

Minding the fickle mind,

Bringing it back home—

This is meditation.

Meditation means returning the mind to its

Numinous spiritual nature—

Awareness itself.

What is awareness?

Everyone has it,

But you may not know it.

That’s what meditation is for.

Meditation—

Gradually cultivating the faculty of awareness;

Gradually getting in touch with your numinous spiritual essence;

Gradually cutting off the defilements, the mainspring of samsara!

—Thus Master Hsin Tao