Evil feeds on evil
and in time destroys everything
connected with it. Cling to what is correct,
and evil withers quickly away.
Good fortune returns.
sixth changing line
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 23, Po / Splitting Apart
live for your center, not your senses
The five
colors blind the eye.
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavors overwhelm
the palate.
Fancy things
get in the way of one’s growth.
Racing here and there, hunting for
this and that—good ways to
madden your mind,
that’s all.
Relinquish what is without.
Cultivate what is within.
Live for your center,
not your senses.
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why try to look for it?
The nature of mind is
non-arising: why try
to look for it?
Originally there is no dharma —
why talk about smoke
and fire?
Going and coming without end,
clinging to what you’ve known —
don’t bother.
All these things are useless.
In a place of quiet illumination,
see for yourself.
you are taking sides as you practice
Mindfulness is not just
watching things coming and going.
As the Buddha said, when mindfulness becomes a
governing principle in the mind, it sees things that are unskillful
and it works toward getting rid of them. It sees things that are
skillful and works toward giving rise to them. It actively
gets involved in making things arise and
making things pass away.
So you are taking sides
as you practice. Hopefully, you’re taking sides
with the right side – right view and all the way down
to right concentration – because it really
does make a difference.
set an example of self-improvement
do not even do this non-doing
on this date a buddha was born
A monk asked Chao Chou,
“Does a dog also have the Buddha nature, or not?”
Chao Chou replied, ‘Mu.’ This Mu is not the Mu of yes or no;
it is not the Mu of true nonexistence. Ultimately what is it?
To reach that place from where Chao Chou said Mu
one must straightaway lay down
the entire body.
Do not do anything
(good or bad) and do not even do this
not-doing; then straightaway one reaches that place
where there is no concern for external affairs, that vast
and peaceful place where there are absolutely
no obstructing thoughts.
There, all thoughts
of the past are extinguished,
all thoughts of the future do not arise,
and all present thoughts
are void.