Behind all this,
some great happiness
is hiding.
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seeking to serve
The greatest
achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is
seeking to serve
others.
don’t waste time
I wouldn’t say
that in recent times those who
study the Way do not try hard, but they often
just memorize Zen stories and try to pass judgement on
the ancient and modern Zen masters, picking and choosing among
words and phrases, creating complicated rationalizations
and learning stale slogans. Will they ever be done
with this? If you study Zen like this, all you
will get is a worn out collection
of antiques and
curios.
☯️
What
is the good
in clinging to slogans,
quotations, and formulas?
This is passing around stale bread.
Just shut the language door,
open your awareness,
and don’t look
back.
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unconcerned with name or gain
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.
quiet and still within and without
No want
is the greatest bliss.
It can be realized only by experience.
Even an emperor is no match
for a man with no
wants.
People of
the Way are quiet and
still, within and
without.
You
can now buy
Wei wu Wei Ching as part of a
five-app bundle of Taoist classics
for iPhone or iPad for less than
the cost of one hardcover
book.
