# zen teaching 1. learn how to be entirely unreceptive to sensations arising from external forms, thereby purging your bodies of receptivity to externals 2. learn not to pay attention to any distinction between this and that arising from your sensations, thereby purging your bodies of useless discernments between one phenomenon and another 3. take great care to avoid discriminating in terms of pleasant and unpleasant sensations, thereby purging your bodies of vain discriminations 4. avoid pondering things in your mind, thereby purging your bodies of discriminatory cognition --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://um.fz.ax/self/zen-teaching.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.