washing dirt in mud

diamonds

 

By even speaking a phrase to you,

I have already doused you with dirty water.

It would be even worse for me to put a twinkle in my eye

and raise my eyebrow to you, or rap on the meditation seat

or hold up a whisk, or demand, “What is this?”

As for shouting and hitting, it’s obvious

that this is just a pile of bones

on level ground.

 

There are also the type

who don’t know good from bad and

ask questions about Buddha and Dharma and Zen

and the Tao. They ask to be helped, they beg to be received,

they seek knowledge and sayings and theories relating to

the Buddhist teaching and to transcending the world

and to accommodating the world. This is washing

dirt in mud and washing mud in dirt —

when will they ever manage

to clear it away?

 

Forget the words and 

embody the meaning.

 

Yuanwu

zen letters

 

don’t linger with what is trivial

pray for the dead

 

Deluded

people fill the world.

If you’re determined to join

the buddhas instead, then

don’t linger with what

is trivial and

shallow.

 

Annihilate ignorance.

Rescue the suffering.

Take up the responsibility

for eliminating all that

obstructs the

Way.

 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 48

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live simply and virtuously

returning to earth

 

What good

is it to spend your life 

accumulating material things? 

It isn’t in keeping with the Tao. What

benefit in conforming your behavior to someone’s

conventions? It violates your nature and dissipates 

your energy. Why separate your spiritual life

and your practical life? To an integral

being, there is no such 

distinction. 

 

Live simply

and virtuously, true to

your nature, drawing no line

between what is spiritual and what is

not. Ignore time. Relinquish ideas and

concepts. Embrace the Oneness. 

This is the Integral

Way. 

 

Hua hu Ching, Chapter 50

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cut off any duality

ashes and snow

 

Yongjia said,

“Without leaving wherever you are,

there is constant clarity.” No words come closer

to the truth than these. If you start seeking, then we know

that you are unable to see. Just cut off any duality between

“wherever you are” and “constant clarity,” and make

yourself peaceful and serene. Avoid concocting

intellectual understanding and seeking.

As soon as you seek, it is like

grasping at shadows.

 

Yuanwu