Even marvelous enlightenment
is the phantom city.
Do you think
you can clear your mind
by sitting constantly in silent
meditation? This makes
your mind narrow,
not clear.
Integral awareness is
fluid and adaptable, present in all
places and at all times. That is
true meditation.
Who can attain
clarity and simplicity by
avoiding the world? The Tao is clear
and simple, and it doesn’t
avoid the world.
Why not simply honor
your parents, love your children, help
your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your
friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete
your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility
for problems, practice virtue without first demanding
it of others, understand the highest truths yet
retain an ordinary manner?
That would be true clarity,
true simplicity, true
mastery.
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Only when you’ve
seen the Way do you practice
the Way — if you don’t see, what do you
practice? The emergence of the Way is like space —
what is there to cultivate in space? Those who practice
the Way by all kinds of contemplation are fire
stirring fire looking for foam. Just observe
the manipulation of the puppets —
when the strings are cut, it
all stops at once.
treasury of the eye of true teaching
be the same all the way through
Just
do not give birth
to a single thought: let go
and become crystal clear. As soon
as any notions of right and wrong and self
and other and gain and loss are present,
do not follow them off. Then you
will be personally studying
with your own true
enlightened
teacher.
Perseverance in stillness,
in both thought and deed, forms a
noble heart. The ultimate fruit of a noble
heart is complete peace
of mind.
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
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