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tao is the treasure of the world

you will often be thought crazy

 

Tao is the hidden

secret source of all life.

Good men recognize that tao provides

for them and therefore they esteem it.

Bad men don’t recognize this,

but the tao doesn’t stop

providing for

them.

 

Beautiful words

win some men honors;

good deeds buy others acclaim.

But the tao values everyone,

not just those who excel.

What’s the sense

in discarding

anyone?

 

Thus, on the day

a new king is crowned

or powerful ministers installed,

while others rush forward with gifts

and praises, just be still

and offer tao.

 

Why

have sages

prized tao for so long?

Because with tao, he who

seeks finds, and he who has

flaws is forgiven. This is

why it is the treasure

of the world.

 

Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 62


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still the body and quiet the mind

iwao akiyama

 

All craving or hatred

is forgetfulness of life. When accumulated

illusions are not cleared up, they interfere with perception

of the Way. This is why we need to give up cravings and abide in

nothingness, so that we have a basis for gradual clarification.

If we look back at our former cravings after that,

then we will naturally find them

unappealing…

 

If you still the body and quiet

the mind, myriad illnesses

will all vanish.

 

Treatise on Sitting Forgetting

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the ultimate path is simple and easy

many try to usurp the style of zen

 

Yantou said,

“Abandoning things is superior,

pursuing things is inferior.” If your own state

is empty and tranquil, perfectly illuminated and silently

shining, then you will be able to confront whatever circumstances

impinge on you with the indestructible sword of wisdom and cut

everything off — everything from the myriad entangling objects

to the verbal teachings of the past and present. Then your

awesome, chilling spirit cuts off everything, and

everything retreats of itself without having

to be pushed away. Isn’t this what it

means to be well endowed and

have plenty to spare?

 

…The Ultimate Path is

simple and easy — it is just a matter of

whether you abandon things or pursue them.

Those who would experience the Path

should think deeply

on this.

 

Yuanwu

zen letters

 

happiness in the morning

welcome

 
 

Happy in the morning,

I open my cottage door; a clear breeze

blowing comes straight in. The first sun lights

the leafy trees, the shadows it casts are crystal clear.

Serene, in accord with my heart, everything merges

in one harmony. Gain and loss are not my

concern; this way is enough to

the end of my days.

 

Wen-siang

zen is a sword about to be drawn


 

This matter Zen

is like a great mass of fire:

when you approach it your face is sure

to be scorched. It is again like a sword about

to be drawn; when it is once out of the scabbard,

someone is sure to lose his life. The precious

vajra sword is right here and its purpose

is to cut off the head.

 

The body does not know

how to discourse or to listen to a discourse.

This which is unmistakably perceivable right where

you are, absolutely identifiable yet without

form, this is what listens to

the discourse.

 

Dahui

zonggao