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Hsin Hsin Ming.
The Book Of Nothing.
The Great Way.
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
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.
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.
Truth Cannot Be
Sought
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.
Return To The
Root
To return to the
root is to find the meaning,
But to pursue
appearences is to miss the source.
At the moment
of inner enlightenment,
There is a
going beyond appearence 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.
The Unity of Emptiness
When thought objects
vanish,
The thinking-subject
vanishes,
As when the
mind vanishes, objects vanish.
Things are
objects because there is a subject or mind;
And the mind
is a subject because there are 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.
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.
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.
Strive to No Goals
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 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.
All Dreams Must
Cease.
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 motion
in stillness
And stillness
in motion;
Both movement
and stillness disappear.
When such dualities
cease to exist
Oneness itself
cannot exist.
To this ultimate
finality
No law or description
applies.
Life In True Faith.
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 is
excluded.
Neither This Nor
That.
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.
Waste no 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 nonperfection.
To live in
this faith is the road to nonduality,
Because the
nondual is one with the trusting mind.
No Yesterday,
No Tomorrow, No Today.
Words!
The Way is
beyond language,
For in it there
is
No yesterday
No tomorrow
No today.
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