The wind blows hard among the pines

toward the beginning

of an endless past. 

Listen: you’ve heard everything.

Shinkichi Takahashi

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The practice of true reality is simply to sit serenely in silent introspection. When you have fathomed this you cannot be turned around by external causes and conditions. This empty, wide open mind is subtlety and correctly illuminating. Spacious and content, without confusion from inner thoughts or grasping, effectively overcome habitual behavior and realize the self that is not possessed by emotions.

You must be broad-minded, whole without relying on others. Such upright independent spirit can begin not to pursue degrading situations. Here you can rest and become clean, pure, and lucid. Bright and penetrating, you can immediately return, accord, and respond to deal with events.

Everything is unhindered; clouds gracefully floating up to the peaks, the moonlight glitteringly flowing down mountain streams. The entire place is brightly illumined and spiritually transformed, totally unobstructed and clearly manifesting responsive interaction like box and lid or arrow points meeting.

Continuing, cultivate and nourish yourself to enact maturity and achieve stability. If you accord everywhere with thorough clarity and cut off sharp corners without dependence on doctrines, like the white bull or wildcat helping to arouse wonder, you can be called a complete person.

So we hear that this is how one of the way of non-mind acts, but before realizing non-mind we still have great hardship.

Hongzhi Zhenjue

h. kopp-delaney

In the changing of

 the constellations, we study the

criterion of the universe; in the alteration

of clouds and rain, we see clearly the

harmony of nature.

Tao is a mysterious

presence; it eludes the sharpest

tracker. Acquiring knowledge of the Way

we must return to simple beginnings that come

naturally, like the rules of music. As the mists

lift and the stars usher forth the moon,

we see the true path all

around us.

Loy Ching-Yuen

PichiAvo

With all

this talking, what has

been said? The subtle truth can

be pointed at with words, but

it can’t be contained

by them. 

Take time

to listen to what is said

without words, to obey the law

too subtle to be written, to worship the

unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

Love your life. Trust the Tao. Make love

with the invisible subtle origin of the

universe, and you will give

yourself everything

you need. 

You won’t

have to hide away

forever in spiritual retreats.

You can be a gentle, contemplative hermit

right here in the middle of everything, utterly

unaffected, thoroughly sustained and

rewarded by your integral

practices. 

Encouraging others,

giving freely to all, awakening and

purifying the world with each movement

and action, you’ll ascend to the

divine realm in broad

daylight. 

The breath of

the Tao speaks, and

those who are in harmony

with it hear quite

clearly.

from Hua hu Ching, Chapter 81

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In the search

for enlightenment,

there is an ever-present

certainty that there is more to do,

someone else who holds the

secret, another state to

attain.
 

In the

finding of it,

there is the comical

revelation that not one

of those things was

ever true.
 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 55

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