Please consider that you may also be free of all the shackles that the human mind is capable of creating and this is also a conscious choice [emphasis added]- a kind of will to the truth.
/Rich
Interesting, when one makes the choice to let go of all dwelling places, the choice is the first thing to go, then there is just non-dwelling.
Those with non-dwelling minds have Buddha minds or so says Hui Hai.
This non-dwelling leads to Nirvikalpa Samadhi A.K.A. Nirvana, the question then arises for us Mahayana folk who take the road of the Bodhisattva, How far out of the mind stream do we go?
At what point do we re-enter the mind stream, what do we take up, what do we let go by, what do we cultivate, what do we abandon?
What is to be our guide, how we feel in the moment or the precepts and the bodhisattva ideal?
There is cultivation and abandoning other wise our practice would be no different than just letting Samsara take us where ever it happened to go.
Truly it comes down to our choices and being in a Soto Zen Buddhist Sangha it raises the question of what choices are in harmony with S.Z.B.?