Just
detach from thoughts
and cut off sentiments and transcend
the ordinary conventions. Use your own inherent
power and take up its great capacity and great wisdom right
where you are. It is like letting go when you are hanging
from a mile-high cliff, releasing your body
and not relying on anything
anymore.
There’s no end to study;
learning tao, the modest talent must
practice well. A clear, persevering mind is
the way to real empowerment,
to buddha-mind.
When there is no perceived
difference between square and circle,
light and dark in our minds, we have attained
the profound truth of tao. Everything in
heart should be as one:
emptiness
emptiness
Scholar’s studies
can become an obstacle,
making the mind difficult to control.
The effect of zazen is to let your mind and
body really listen to you. Quiet sitting is good.
Zazen can reasonably be taken as far
as one chooses—one can advance
by the light discovered
within it.
There’s no deception
in it. It’s a natural need in a human
being’s life.It’s the call by the Universe
to a human being’s true nature.
Zazen perfects the
human being.
The mission of humans is
to cease producing the waves of thought that
have occurred up until now as a result of egotism.
When that is done, a human being is
born for the first time.
The potential for
an influential union exists.
Maintain clarity and balance and act
energetically when the way opens.
When it closes, withdraw
without resistance.
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
(full text here)
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Every time we smile,
all the generations of our ancestors,
our children, and the generations to come —
all of whom are within us — smile too. We practice
not just for ourselves, but for everyone,
and the stream of life
continues.