This is another idea way of expressing "not to leave a hairbreadth interval". When a flint strikes steel, no moment is lost before a spark issues from the contact.tjis is likened to the mind not stopping with any object, and no time being left for deliberation. It does not mean just the instantaneity og events happening one after another.the point is not to left the mind stip witj any thing. Mere instantaneity is of no avail if the mind stops even for a moment. As soon as there is a moment stoppagr, your mind i no longer your own, for it is then to be placed under another's control. When the mind calculates so as to be quick in movement, the very thought makes the mind captive.
Here is the first poems..
As i understand you to be a man
Who has grown weary of the world
I only think of you as not all longing
For a temporary shelter.
These two are kept separate, life loses its freedom and spontaneity and one fails to be master of oneself.psychologically speaking, this is the unconscious breaking into the field of consciousness when loses itself, abandoning itselg to the dictates of the unconscious."living as a dead man". He must free himself from all ideas involving life and death.gain and loss, right and wrong, givinh himself up to a power which lives deeply in his inner being.then harmonious co-operation.
Here is the second poem..
While living, be a dead man
Be throughly dead
Amd behave as you like
And all is well.
"Longing for". the second part of the poem may also translated,I only think that you would not have your mind stopped with temporary shelter.
The point concerned here is not necessarily the appropriateness of the answer, but to see the mind not stopping with anything.such mind stops neither with the color nor with the odor.this nonstopping mind in its suchness is a blessed as a god or honored.but it is after all at the stage of ignorance and affects.
The movement of instantaneity in which the flint emits a spark when it strikes a steel. Is the same as a flash of lightning.
What business can it be? And what is it?
This comes from mind abiding in ignorance and affects. Whenever or wherever it stops this is the sign of being moved by something external, which is delusion, and such is said to be mind of an extra ordinary being belonging to the stage of ignorance and affects.
