How to Eradicate Dust

Upon realizing the variability, impermanence, illusory nature, and emptiness of dust, the mind becomes empty and purified when encountering dust. One's view and understanding are transformed, attaining right view. With no dust in mind, one perceives dust yet recognizes it as non-dust, attaining the samadhi of dust and abiding within it. Yet dust neither vanishes nor ceases; its illusory appearance remains. All cognition regarding it changes—one is no longer deluded, no longer inverted, and no longer grasping.

Dust is the object of mental discernment, encompassing form, mental phenomena, and that which is neither form nor mind. Mind is the root; phenomena are dust. These two are like marks on a mirror. When studying the Dharma, principle is principle and phenomena are phenomena—forever separate matters. When encountering phenomena, principles retreat to the back of one’s mind, and one becomes trapped by phenomena. Studying the Dharma this way—when will liberation ever be attained?