Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching #670

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Buddha said, “If you want to use similes for expression, there is ultimately no simile to which this can be likened.” This talk of vastness is already limiting it. How much the more so wanting to enter this vast realm with a limited mind. Even if you manage to enter, it is like dipping water from the ocean with a gourd. Even if the gourd is filled, how much can it contain? However, before the water in the gourd goes into the gourd, it is identical to the measureless water. Because your perspective is just so, you imagine this is plenitude; so this infinite realm also fills you according to the measure of your capacity. It is not that there is only so much water in the immense ocean. Therefore the Buddha has said that the immense ocean does not refuse small streams; **from insects to titans, those who drink the water all get filled. **This water represents the mind, while the insects and titans represent differences of great and small. There are fundamentally no distinctions in the essence of mind. If you perceive this mind without producing any views, you will also be able to perceive all sorts of distinctions on your own.

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