# The mysterious source

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Podcast: [Earth Dreams: Zen Buddhism and the Soul of the World](https://stenobird.com/podcast/earth-dreams-zen-buddhism-and-the-soul-of-the-world-6415534)
Published: 2025-12-07T18:20:00+00:00
Episode link: https://amykisei.substack.com/p/the-mysterious-source
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I want to return to this profound poem we are studying for the autumn practice period—Affirming Faith in Mind. If mind does not discriminate, all things are as they are as one. To go to this mysterious source—frees us from all entanglements. When all is seen with equal mind, to our self-nature we return. This single mind goes right beyond all reasons and comparison. This poem is about Trust in Mind, Faith in our true nature, Trust in the Heart of Wisdom Do we trust our heart-mind? Do you have faith in the nature of your own mind? Your own heart? This poem is a “pointing out” style teaching. Stanza by stanza, line by line—it’s pointing to the Mind beyond thought. It’s inviting us to recognize who we are beyond our strategies of defending, protecting, judging, identifying. We too can know ourselves as mystery. We too can know the source of all experience. There is encouragement and support to turn towards the apparent source of our suffering, and really look into its nature. To experience for ourselves the freedom, spaciousness, clarity and love of our nature. Right, here. Dahui in one of his letters addresses a student’s concern that he is dull, and his dullness is preventing him from realizing his true nature. Dahui responds: That which perceives dullness is certainly not dull itself…indeed you should use your very dullness in order to enter the Way. However, if you identify with dullness and regard yourself as incapable by nature of awakening, you will find yourself caught by the demon of dullness. As I see it, in our ordinary way of seeing things we tend to let the desire for awakening get ahead of us and thus turn it into an obstacle preventing our true understanding from manifesting. But this obstacle is neither outside ourselves nor separate from ourselves—it is n…

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