The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the deep meaning of things is not understood, the mind\u2019s essential peace is disturbed to no avail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Way is perfect like vast space where nothing is lacking and nothing in excess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not see the true nature of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Live neither in the entanglements of outer things, nor in inner feelings of emptiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be serene in the oneness of things and sucherroneous views will disappear by themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you try to stop activity by passivity your very effort fills you with activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As long as you remain in one extreme or the other you will never know Oneness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those who do not live in the single Way fail in both activity and passivity, assertion and denial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not be able to know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To return to the root is to find meaning, but to pursue appearances is to miss the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the moment of inner enlightenment, there is a going beyond appearance and emptiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The changes that appear to occur in the empty world we call real only because of our ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
do not remain in the dualistic state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Avoid such pursuits carefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If there is even a trace of this and that, of right and wrong, the mind-essence will be lost in confusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although all dualities come from the One, do not be attached even to this One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist in the old way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When thought objects vanish, the thinking-subject vanishes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As when the mind vanishes, objects vanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things are objects because of the subject (mind): the mind (subject) is such because of things (object).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Understand the relativity of these two and the basic reality: the unity of emptiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this Emptiness the two are indistinguishable and each contains in itself the whole world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine you will not be tempted to prejudice and opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And clinging (attachment) cannot be limited: Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Obey the nature of things (your own nature) and you will walk freely and undisturbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the thought is in bondage the truth is hidden for everything is murky and unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with enlightenment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The wise man strives to no goals but the foolish man fetters himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is one Dharma, not many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To seek Mind with the (discriminating) mind is the greatest of all mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rest and unrest derive from illusion; with enlightenment there is no liking and disliking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All dualities come from ignorant inference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They are like dreams or flowers in air foolish to try to grasp them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gain and loss, right and wrong, such thoughts must<\/p>\n\n\n\n
finally be abolished at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If the eye never sleeps, all dreams will naturally cease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they are, of single essence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To understand the mystery of this One-essence is to be released from all entanglements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When all things are seen equally the timeless Self-essence is reached,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No comparisons or analogies are possible in this causeless, relationless state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consider movement stationary and the stationary in motion,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
both movement and rest disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When such dualities cease to exist Oneness itself cannot exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To this ultimate finality, no law or description applies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the unified mind in accord with the way all self-centered striving ceases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a single stroke we are freed from bondage: Nothing clings to us and we hold to nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind\u2019s power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here thought, feeling, knowledge and imagination are of no value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this world of suchness there is neither self nor other-than-self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To come directly into harmony with this reality just say when doubt rises \u201cnot two\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this \u201cnot two\u201d nothing is separate, nothing is excluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No matter when or where, enlightenment means entering this truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And this truth is beyond extension or diminution in time and space:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In it a single thought is ten thousand years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emptiness here, emptiness there, but the infinite universe stands always before your eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Infinitely large and infinitely small; no difference, for definitions have vanished and no boundaries are seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So too with Being and non-Being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t waste time in doubts and arguments That have nothing to do with this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One thing, all things, move among and intermingle without distinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Words!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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