Intentional Curiosity Again

During the sharing after the group meditation practice today, what came to my mind was the question a student had raised to Bodhidharma, and that is, "how can I settle my mind?"... at which point Bodhidharma had said (with a very fierce expression), "show me your mind, and I will pacify it." Not knowing exactly where this mind is, the student has an insight that there is no mind to pacify. I am not sure why this point was raised but it seemed right at the time when I came out of the meditation sitting.
   I have thought about this expression "intentional curiosity", and I don't think it's a very apt expression. Yes, it's important to develop an intention to want to know where the mind it, what it is, at every given point in time. But at the same time, there is something gentle about curiosity: I really don't need to know at all, and I don't have to harp on the fact that I don't know. Instead, my mind is very gently open and pointing in that direction of wonder. This is really the key point for me, and that is not to try too hard to be curious. After all, anything that we are going to deliberately be "curious" about is only going to be an illusory object. It isn't really what one is aiming for.
   I have sometimes found that certain kinds of music helps to evoke a sense of mystery, or the edges of reality starting to curl and reveal something else. But be careful not to make this into another dogma. It's not about trying to solidify or catch anything: rather, it's always retaining that light sense of wonder that never quite touches or grounds itself in any particular thing. This is the nature of mind: it's always luminous, like a crystal, and beautiful, but one is so shrouded in habitual ways of solidifying their bodies and identities that they cannot see this wonder.