cast aside all thoughts

enlightenment is not apart from the world

 

To be unstained

in all environments is called no-thought…

If you stop thinking of the myriad things, and cast aside

all thoughts, as soon as one instant of thought is

cut off, you enter another realm.

 

The Dharma of no-thought means:

even though you see all things, you do not

attach to them, but, always keeping your own nature

pure, cast the six thieves of the senses to

exit through the six gates.

 

Even though you are

in the midst of the six dusts,

you do not stand apart from them,

yet are not stained by them, and

are free to come and go.

 

Hui Neng

the platform sutra

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