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So f YASUTANI ' s COMMENTARY ON MUtion innocent, commonplace thoughts. In short, all conceivable ideasare embraced within the term "delusions" and as such are a hindranceto the realization of your Essential-nature. So dissolve them with thefireball of Mu!You must not practice fitfully. You will never succeed if you dozazen only when you have the whim to, and give up easily. You mustcarry on steadfastly fo r one, two, three, or even five years withoutremission, constantly vigilant. Thus you will gradually gain in purity.At first you will not be able to pour yourself wholeheartedly into Mu.It will escape you quickly because your mind will start to wander.You will have to concentrate harder-just "Mu ! Mu ! Mu !" Againit will elude you. Once more you attempt to focus on it and againyou fail. This is the usual pattern in the early stages of practice. Evenwhen Mu does not slip away, your concentration becomes disruptedbecause of various mind deft.lements. These deft.lements disappear intime, yet since you have not achieved oneness with Mu you are stillfar from ripe. Absolute unity with Mu, unthinking absorption in Mu-this is ripeness. Upon your attainment to this stage of purity, bothinside and outside naturally fuse. "Inside and outside" has variousshades of meaning. It may be understood as meaning subjectivity andobjectivity or mind and body. When you fully absorb yourself inMu, the external and internal merge into a single unity. But, unableto speak about it, you will be like "a mute who has had a dream."One who is dumb is unable to talk about his dream of the night before. In the same way, you will relish the taste of samadhi yourselfbut be unable to tell others about it.At this stage Self-realization will abruptly take place. Instantaneously! "Bursting into enlightenment" requires but an instant. It is asthough an explosion had occurred. When this happens you will experienceso much ! "You will surprise the heavens and move theearth." Everything will appear so changed that you will think heavenand earth have been overturned. Of course there is no literal topplingover. With enlightenment you see the world as Buddha-nature, butthis does not mean that all becomes as radiant as a halo. Rather, eachthing just as it is takes on an entirely new significance or worth.Miraculously, everything is radically transformed though remainingas it is.