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.
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.
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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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.
Evening
and nighttime are
times of rest for cultivated people.
Accordingly you should withdraw into the
chamber of spirit and embrace oneness without
parting. Since there are no worldly feelings enveloping
you, neither is there an original sublime truth —
when you are like a dead man for the time
being, that is called great rest. After you
get to the point of dreaming and
sleeping without becoming
muddled, you see the
effect of mastering
seriousness.
Then
the following morning
is the time for the cultured person’s
“daily renewal”. Accordingly, you should rise
early and daily seek what you have yet to attain,
with the determination to do ten times or a hundred
times what others do. The days become months, the months
become years; those who study without question of how
long it takes, be it three years or five years, never
fail to reach sagehood. When you are mindful
at every moment, nurturing it with each
breath, the work is never interrupted;
perfected day after day and month
after month, learning will
shine with light.
