keep your mind free from hatred and love


 

You must

avoid letting your mind

dwell upon anything whatsoever,

which implies being unconcerned

with either deeds or

no deeds.

 

What

I mean is keeping

your mind free from hatred

and love. This means that you must be able

to see attractive things without love for them arising

in your mind and also you must be able to see

repulsive things without hatred for them

arising in your mind. You

must examine this

thoroughly.

 

Hui Hai

 

rise up


 

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie

Dust unto dust

The calm earth mothers all who die

As all men must

Mourn not your captive comrades who must dwell

Too strong to strive

Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell,

Buried alive;

But rather mourn the apathetic throng

The cowed and the meek

Who see earth’s great languish and its wrong

And dare not speak.

 

Ralph Chaplin