Search out the point
where your thoughts arise and disappear.
See where a thought arises and vanishes. Keep this point
in mind and try to break right through it. Take up
this awareness as if holding a sharp
sword in your hand.
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let go of everything
touch nirvana right here and now
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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cut off confusion in every state
Some people,
not knowing the essential emptiness
of good and evil, think practical cultivation of mind
means to sit rigidly immobile, subduing mind
and body, like a rock placed
on top of grass.
This is ludicrous.
That is why it is said that followers
cut off confusion in every state of mind,
yet the mind that does the cutting
off is a brigand.
saving the world and ourselves
It is useless to
discuss the peace of the world.
What is necessary just now is to create peace
in ourselves that we, ourselves, become examples of
love, harmony and peace. That is the only
way of saving the world
and ourselves.
this is the way of heaven
Filling
to fullness is not
as good as stopping
at the right
moment.
Oversharpening
a blade causes its edge to be lost.
Line your home with treasures and you
won’t be able to defend it. Amass possessions,
establish positions, display your pride:
Soon enough disaster drives
you to your
knees.
This is the
way of heaven:
do your work, then
quietly step
back.
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