Once you
merge your tracks into
the stream of Zen, you spend your days
silencing your mind and studying with your whole being.
You realize that this Great Cause is not obtained from
anyone else but is just a matter of taking up the
task boldly and strongly, and
making constant
progress.
Day by day
you shed your delusions,
and day by day you enhance your clarity
of mind. Your potential for enlightened perception is like
fine gold that is to be refined hundreds and thousands of times.
What is essential for getting out of the dusts, what is basic for
helping living creatures, is that you must penetrate
through freely in all directions and arrive at
peace and security free from doubt
and attain the stage of great
potential and great
function.
This work
is located precisely in
your own inner actions. It is just
a matter of being in the midst of the interplay
of the myriad causal conditions every day, in the confusion
of the red dusts, amid favorable and adverse circumstances and gain
and loss, appearing and disappearing in their midst, without
being affected and “turned around” by them,
but on the contrary, being able to
transform them and “turn
them around”.
…When you
go on “grinding and polishing”
like this for a long time, you are liberated right in the
midst of birth and death, and you look upon the world’s useless
reputation and ruinous profit as mere dust in the wind, as a dream,
as a magical apparition, as an optical illusion. Set free, you
pass through the world. Isn’t this what it means
to be a great saint who has emerged
from the dust of sensory
attachments?
