Returning to the root is
the movement of tao.
Quietness is how
it functions.
The ten thousand things
are born of being.
Being is born of
emptiness.
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One morning in the zendo
as we were all silently sitting zazen,
Suzuki Roshi said, “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.”
To Shine One Corner of the World
The tao is the law of nature,
which you can’t depart from for even one
instant. If you could depart from it, it wouldn’t be the tao.
Thus the mature person looks into her own heart and respects
what is unseen and unheard. Nothing is more manifest than
the hidden; nothing is more obvious than the unseen.
Thus the mature person pays attention to what
is happening in his inmost self.
honor comes to those who are correct
support sheldrick wildlife trust
The teaching
of the Integral Way will go on
as long as there is a tao and someone who
wishes to embody it; what is painted in
these scrolls today will appear in
different forms in many
generations to
come.
These things,
however, will never change:
Those who wish to attain oneness must
practice undiscriminating virtue. They must
dissolve all ideas of duality: good and bad, beautiful
and ugly, high and low. They will be obliged to abandon
any mental bias born of cultural or religious belief.
Indeed, they should hold their minds free
of any thought which interferes with
their understanding of the
universe as a harmonious
oneness.
The
beginning
of these practices is
the beginning of
liberation.
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Good
and bad, self
and others, life and death:
Why affirm these concepts? Why
deny them? To do either is to exercise
the mind, and the integral being knows
that the manipulations of the mind
are dreams, delusions, and
shadows.
Hold
one idea, and
another competes with it.
Soon the two will be in conflict
with a third, and in time your
life is all chatter and
contradiction.
Seek
instead to keep
your mind undivided.
Dissolve all ideas
into the
tao.
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