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 mind's 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 wonder 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 appearance 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 cease
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 mind vanishes, objects
vanish.
Things are objects because of the subject (mind):
the mind (subject)
is such because of things (objects).
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 thing 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 of 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 mind's 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 doubt arises,
'Not two.'
In this 'not two' nothing is separate,
nothing 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 vanishes
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. | 
