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do you imagine the universe is agitated?

stairway to the milky way

 

Do you

imagine the universe

is agitated? Go into the desert

at night and look out at the stars. 

This practice should answer

the question. 

 

The superior

person settles her mind as 

the universe settles the stars in the sky. 

By connecting her mind with the subtle origin,

she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally

expands and ultimately her mind

becomes as vast and 

immeasurable as

the night

sky.

 

Hua hu Ching, Chapter 5

 

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the present moment is the source of everything

a moment of kindness

 

The

present moment

is the source of everything.

As long as you have resentments

about the past or ideas about

the future, you cannot

genuinely be in

the present.

 

You owe it

to your future self,

and to the rest of us, to be

completely absorbed here and

now. Make all notions of past

and future a cool pile

of ashes in the

corner.

 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 30

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the necessity of adversity

what is always present

 

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)

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complete and perfect of itself

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.

 

Chinul

tracing back the radiance

 

let your mind and body become thoroughly empty

in the midst of the interplay

 

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.

 

Yuanwu

zen letters