A true change of
heart is possible when we accept the
necessity of adversity. Peace comes when
we discontinue the strivings
of the ego.
fifth changing line
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 30, Li / The Clinging (Fire)
(full text here)
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a solitary tune by a fisherman
Some people,
not knowing the essential emptiness
of good and evil, think practical cultivation of mind
means to sit rigidly immobile, subduing mind
and body, like a rock placed on
top of grass.
This is ludicrous.
That is why it is said that followers
cut off confusion in every state of mind,
yet the mind that does the cutting
off is a brigand.
…People who practice
the Way should not seek externally.
The essence of mind has no defilement; it is originally
complete and perfect of itself. Just detach from
illusory objects, and it is enlightened
to suchness as is.
If you want to
pass through easily and directly
right now, just let your body and mind become
thoroughly empty, so it is vacant and silent yet aware
and luminous. Inwardly, forget all your conceptions of self,
and outwardly, cut off all sensory defilements.
When inside and outside are clear all the
way through, there is just
one true reality.
A day
so happy. Fog lifted
early, I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over
honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing
on earth I wanted to possess. I knew no one
worth my envying him. Whatever evil I had
suffered, I forgot. To think that once I was
the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain. When
straightening up, I saw the
blue sea and
sails.
Mind is consciousness
which has put on limitations.
You are originally unlimited and perfect.
Later you take on limitations
and become the mind.
Calmness
in quietude is not
real calm; when you can be calm
in the midst of activity, this is the true
state of nature. Happiness in comfort is
not real happiness; when you can be
happy in the midst of hardship,
then you see the true
potential of the
mind.