When you do not realize
that you are one with the river, or one
with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is
separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and
death are the same thing. When we realize this
fact we have no fear of death anymore,
and we have no actual
difficulty in life.
Detach from all
false entanglements and become
free and clean. After that respectfully practice
all forms of good, and arouse great compassion to bring
benefits to all sentient beings. In all that you do, be
even and balanced and attuned to the inherent
equality of all things — be selfless and
have no attachments.
Make enlightenment your
standard, and don’t feel bad
if it is slow in coming.
Take care!
no longer bound
by what I thought I owned
no longer living in another person’s life
I am whatever I will let myself become
last night I dreamed a flying turtle
wolves inside a mountain burning arrow
at the bottom of a lake
Buddha’s
teaching cannot be
attained by having ideas
or not having ideas. Only when
the mind of pure practice coincides
with the way will body and mind be calm.
If body and mind are not yet calm, they
will not be at ease. When body and
mind are not at ease, thorns
grow on the path of
realization.
So that
pure practice and
the way coincide, how should
we proceed? Proceed with the mind which
neither grasps nor rejects, the mind unconcerned
with name or gain. Do not practice buddha-dharma with the
thought that it is to benefit others…Do not practice buddha-dharma
for your own sake. Do not practice buddha-dharma for name and
gain. Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain blissful reward.
Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain miraculous
effects. Practice buddha-dharma solely for
the sake of buddha-dharma.
This is the way.
All that’s
important is concentrated
focus, purity, and stillness. Even when
you are engaged in doing things, this is not something
external. Take hold of them and return them to yourself —
this is what wondrous function is. The eighty thousand
sensory afflictions are immediately transformed
into eighty thousand means of transcendence,
and there is no more need to make
a special point of studying
with teachers.