The Work of Conservation

According to Zen, the spirit is by nature formless and no objects are to be harbored in it. When there prevails a state of purposelessness, which is a state of fluidity or mindlessness, the spirit then harbors nothing in it,. But it transcends both subject and object and it responds empty-mindedly to whatever is happening. My father suggests not to localize or partialize is the end of spiritual training. An organism works as a whole, a being works best as a whole. We are not a summation of parts but a very subtle coordination of all these different bits that go into the making of the organism, of the being.