the path to the buddha’s table
Life
is a dream,
the years pass by like
flowing waters. Glamour and glory are
transient as autumn smoke; what tragedy —
for with the sun set deeply in the
west, still there are those
lost among paths of
disillusionment.
Our heart
should be clear as ice.
Forget all the worldly nonsense.
Sit calmly, breathe quietly, heart bright
and spotless as an empty mirror.
This is the path to
the buddha’s
table.
dissolve all ideas of duality
The teaching
of the Integral Way will go on
as long as there is a Tao and someone who
wishes to embody it; what is painted in
these scrolls today will appear in
different forms in many
generations to
come.
These things,
however, will never change:
Those who wish to attain oneness must
practice undiscriminating virtue. They must
dissolve all ideas of duality: good and bad, beautiful
and ugly, high and low. They will be obliged to abandon
any mental bias born of cultural or religious belief.
Indeed, they should hold their minds free
of any thought which interferes with
their understanding of the
universe as a harmonious
oneness.
The
beginning
of these practices is
the beginning of
liberation.
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rely on love play
Lots of arms,
just like Kannon the Goddess;
sacrificed for me, garnished with citron,
I revere it so! The taste of the sea, just divine!
Sorry, Buddha, this is another precept I just cannot keep.
Exhausted with gay pleasures, I embrace my wife.
The narrow path of asceticism is not for me;
my mind runs in the opposite direction.
It is easy to be glib about Zen—
I’ll just keep my mouth shut
and rely on love play
all the day
long.
free and peaceful in all you do
There is no
difference between your
body and the body of the buddha.
If ignorance exists, seeds
of realization are
sown in it.
Seeing
yourself in the master and
the master in yourself, you sense
reality. Understanding that all worldly
phenomena and the one reality are
interwoven and inseparable,
you begin to experience
peace and comfort.
Carrying on,
continuing on with concentration,
you illuminate your own buddha nature
from within, and then, seeing that nothing
is apart from it, become free
and peaceful in all
you do.
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