When
we see clearly,
nothing is born, nothing
dies, nothing ever happens.
If you can dwell in emptiness,
breathe emptiness, see
only emptiness, you
will always
be full.
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A day
so happy. Fog lifted
early, I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over
honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing
on earth I wanted to possess. I knew no one
worth my envying him. Whatever evil I had
suffered, I forgot. To think that once I was
the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain. When
straightening up, I saw the
blue sea and
sails.
Frankly speaking,
you simply must manage
to keep concentrating even in the midst
of clamor and tumult, acting as though there were not
a single thing happening, penetrating all the way through from
the heights to the depths. You must become perfectly complete,
without any shapes or forms at all, without wasting effort,
yet not inhibited from acting. Whether you speak
or stay silent, whether you get up
or lie down, it is never
anyone else.
Want to
be happy? Forget
things. Never mind status.
Let go of the obsessions of the body
and the mind and the world.
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The world is
full of half-enlightened masters.
Overly clever, too “sensitive” to live in the real
world, they surround themselves with selfish pleasures and
bestow their grandiose teachings upon the unwary. Prematurely
publicizing themselves, intent upon reaching some spiritual
climax, they constantly sacrifice the truth and deviate
from the Tao. What they really offer
the world is their own
confusion.
The true master
understands that enlightenment
is not the end, but the means. Realizing that
virtue is her goal, she accepts the long and
often arduous cultivation that is
necessary to attain
it.
She doesn’t
scheme to become a leader,
but quietly shoulders whatever
responsibilities fall to her. Unattached
to her accomplishments, taking credit for
nothing at all, she guides the whole world by
guiding the individuals who come to her. She
shares her divine energy with her students,
encouraging them, creating trials to
strengthen them, scolding them to
awaken them, directing the
streams of their lives
toward the infinite
ocean of the
Tao.
If you
aspire to this
sort of mastery, then
root yourself in the Tao.
Relinquish your negative habits
and attitudes. Strengthen your sincerity.
Live in the real world, and extend your virtue
to it without discrimination in the daily round.
Be the truest father or mother, the truest brother
or sister, the truest friend, and the truest disciple.
Humbly respect and serve your teacher, and
dedicate your entire being unwaveringly
to self-cultivation. Then you will surely
achieve self-mastery and be able
to help others in doing
the same.
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