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