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 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 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 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 the Mind vanishes, objects vanish.
Things are objects because of the subject.
The mind is such because of things.
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 course
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 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
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 person strives toward no goals
but the foolish person fetters themselves.
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
and 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 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 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.