It is not
our responsibility to
control or direct others.
Allow them their own path,
and keep to yours. If the
paths meet, fine. If
they do not,
also fine.
fifth changing line
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
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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.
To know
the masculine and yet
cleave to the feminine is to be the
womb for the world. Being the womb for
the world, never departing from the
eternal power of tao, you
become like an infant
once again:
immortal.
To know
the bright and yet
hold to the dull is to be
an example for the world.
Being the example for the world,
not deviating from the everlasting
power of tao, you return to
the infinite once again:
limitless.
To know
honor and yet keep
to humility is to be the valley
for the world. Being the valley for
the world, rich with the primal power
of tao, you return once again to simplicity,
like uncarved wood. Allow tao to carve
you into a vessel for tao. Then you
can serve the world without
mutilating
it.
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