“our greatest blessings come when we are able to improve the lives of others”
Every breath,
each movement, all activity
is completely, inseparably interwoven
with enlightenment. Complete realization
is bound into every petty difficulty, and
wholly liberated and illuminated
through quiet awareness
of that fact.
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You should spend twenty or thirty years doing dispassionate and tranquil meditation work, sweeping away any conditioned knowledge and interpretive understanding as soon as it arrives, and not letting the traces of the sweeping itself remain either. Let go on That Side, abandon your whole body, and go on rigorously correcting yourself until you attain great joyous life. The only fear is that in knowing about this strategy, the very act of knowing will lead to disaster. Only when you proceed like this will it be real and genuine practice.
…But tell me, where were the ancestral teachers of Zen operating? It’s evident that the unique transmission outside of doctrine was not a hurried undertaking. They looked to the void and traced its outline: each and every one penetrated through from the heights to the depths and covered heaven and earth. They were like lions roaming at ease, sovereign and free. When they were empty and open, they really were empty and open, and when they were close and continuous, they really were close and continuous.
Although it is just this one thing that we all stand on, ultimately you yourself must mobilize and focus your energy. Only then will you really receive the use of it.
If
your mind isn’t
clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season
of your life.
Don’t move.
Just die over and over.
Don’t anticipate. Nothing can save you now,
because this is your last moment. Not even enlightenment
will help you now, because you have no other moments.
With no future, be true to yourself —
and don’t move.
There
are three miracles of our
Brother Jesus not yet recorded in the Book:
the first that he was a man like you and me; the second that
he had a sense of humor; and the third that he
knew he was a conqueror though
conquered.
Why do
people hate Jesus,
or at least prefer the ethereal dead
version known as Christ? Because Jesus made
outrageous demands: Love your enemy,
renounce material possessions,
give all you have to
the poor.
A
conservative is
someone who admires radicals
centuries after they’re
dead.
Think of the life
of the great Master Jesus Christ
who was the soul of religion — one sees
that from beginning to end there was nothing
but love and forgiveness. The best expression of love
is that love which is expressed in forgiveness.
Those who came with their wrongs, errors,
imperfections, before the love, that was
all forgiven; there was always a
stream of love which
always purified.
