there
are more, and larger,
forces in play than you understand.
mark it. meditate on it.
watch your
step
don’t seek
Don’t
seek a Buddha,
don’t seek a teaching,
don’t seek a community.
Don’t seek virtue, knowledge,
intellectual understanding, and
so on. When feelings of defilement
and purity are ended, still don’t hold
to this non-seeking and consider it right.
Don’t dwell at the point of ending, and
don’t long for heavens or fear hells.
When you are unhindered by
bondage or freedom, then
this is called liberation
of mind and body in
all places.
a phantom and a dream
Thus
shall ye think
of all this fleeting world:
a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
a flash of lightning in a summer
cloud, a flickering lamp,
a phantom, and a
dream.
your nature is buddha nature
A deep
and sophisticated
understanding of Buddhism,
Taoism, Zen, Chan, philosophy,
meditation technique — none of these
is necessary to attain realization.
They are just as likely to
ensnare you in towers
of complicated
thought.
Abide
in the simple
understanding that
buddha nature is always,
has always been, will always be,
your own nature. Breathe into
that. Breathe out from it.
That is all.
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in stillness a light reaches everywhere
Put
down your myriad
of concerns and wake up.
At the end of the road it’s like an iron wall.
False thoughts are all extinguished, and extinguishing is
wiped away. Body and mind seem to be resting on
the void. In the stillness a light reaches
everywhere with its
brilliance.