If you want to
pass through easily and directly
right now, just let your body and mind become
thoroughly empty, so it is vacant and silent yet aware
and luminous. Inwardly, forget all your conceptions of self,
and outwardly, cut off all sensory defilements.
When inside and outside are clear all the
way through, there is just
one true reality.
Scholar’s studies
can become an obstacle,
making the mind difficult to control.
The effect of zazen is to let your mind and
body really listen to you. Quiet sitting is good.
Zazen can reasonably be taken as far
as one chooses—one can advance
by the light discovered
within it.
There’s no deception
in it. It’s a natural need in a human
being’s life.It’s the call by the Universe
to a human being’s true nature.
Zazen perfects the
human being.
The mission of humans is
to cease producing the waves of thought that
have occurred up until now as a result of egotism.
When that is done, a human being is
born for the first time.
everyone is originally pure, not different from the buddha
The things that
change are not our real life.
Within us there is another body,
another beauty. It belongs to that ray of light
which never changes. We must discover how to mingle
with it and become one with that unchanging thing.
We must realize and understand this treasure
of truth. That is why we have
come to the world.
Do not look for a chance to go out.
But if necessary, going out is permitted once a month.
People in the past lived in the remote mountains and practiced
far away in the forests. Not only were they free of all worldly affairs,
but they abandoned all relationships. You should learn the heart of their
covering brilliance and obscuring traces. Now is the time for the fire
on your head to be wiped out. Is it not sad if you waste this time,
concerning yourself with secular affairs? The impermanent
is unreliable. Nobody knows where or when this
dew-like existence will drop into the grass.
Not recognizing impermanence is
truly regrettable.