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The Living Method of Turning the Light Around
Lu Yan
As you go along practicing turning the light around, you need not give up your normal occupation. An ancient said, “When matters come up, one should respond; when things come up, one should discern.” If you manage your affairs with accurate mindfulness, then the light is not overcome by things, so it will do to repeat this formless turning around of the light time and again. If you can look back again and again into the source of mind, whatever you are doing, not sticking to any image of person or self at all, then this is “turning the light around wherever you are.” This is the finest practice.
In the early morning, if you can clear all objects from your mind and sit quietly, that is best. Whenever you are engaged in work or dealing with people, just use this “looking back” technique, and there will be no interruption.
The Secret of Freedom
The essence of the great Way is to act purposefully without striving. Because of nonstriving, one does not cling to local conventions, forms, or images; but because of not striving yet acting purposefully, one does not fall into indifferent emptiness, dead voidness. The preceding talk of turning the light around points out a method for beginners to help them to attain independence.
Turning the light around is only the general term: with each level of progress in practice, the method of turning around becomes subtler.
