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when a ruler’s palace is full


 

Because

I have a little wisdom,

I choose to walk the great path of

tao, fearing nothing but to stray from

it. The great way is very smooth

and easy, but some people

are fond of getting

sidetracked.

 

When a ruler’s

palace is full of treasure,

the people’s fields are weedy

and their granaries are empty.

If the ruler wears fancy clothes and

his house is full of weapons, if his table

is laden with extravagant food and drink

and everywhere one looks he has more

wealth than he can use, the ruler

is a robber and thief. This

is not in keeping

with tao.

 

Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 53

 

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the great dharma boat

 

When hate and

love don’t block the mind,

stretch out both legs and

then lie down.

 

If you hope and intend

to transform others, you must perfect

expedient means. Don’t cause them to have

doubts, and then their self-nature

will appear.

 

The Buddhadharma is

here in the world; enlightenment is

not apart from the world. To search for Bodhi

apart from the world is like looking for

a hare with horns.

 

Right views are

transcendental; deviant views

are all mundane. Deviant and right

completely destroyed: the

Bodhi nature appears

spontaneously.

 

This verse is

the Sudden Teaching, also called

the great dharma boat. Hear in confusion,

pass through ages, in an instant’s

space, enlightenment.

 

Hui Neng