Life won’t get simple until
our mind does. Embrace
the great emptiness.
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nothing is problematic
The purpose and
result of quietly observing
the self is to forget the self. When
the mind is seen for what it is and
fascination with its activities
dissipates, reality, which
was always present,
appears.
It is at
this point that we
understand that nothing
is problematic and life
becomes thoroughly
enjoyable.
see also
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 46, Sheng / Pushing Upward
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being still, there is no seeking
Repeatedly
undergoing birth and death
is just due to grasping at objects.
When we reflect back on the mind that
grasps at objects, we see that the real identity
of mind is originally pure. Within this purity, grasping
mind does not exist. Within nirvana, fundamentally
there are no thoughts moving; the movement
is ever still. Being still, there is
no seeking.
Records of the Teachers and Students of the Lanka
a golden dragon indeed
If once you can
go through the Cloud-pass,
Then South, North, East, West,
you can go freely in any direction.
Resting at night, travelling by day,
all subject or object forgotten.
Wherever you plant your foot,
there is purity and coolness.
Go through the Cloud pass and
there is no more the old road.
The sky is blue and the sun bright,
the mountains are your home.
The wheel of the world turning and changing,
hard for men to attain truth!
But he who moves through it with folded hands,
is noble ~ a golden dragon indeed.
this morning I felt strong and jaunty
This morning
I felt strong and jaunty in my
mail order Israeli commando trousers.
Up at Hard Luck Ranch I spoke to the ravens
in baritone, fed the cats with manly gestures.
Acacia thorns can’t penetrate these mighty pants,
then out by the corral the infant pup began
to weep, abandoned. In an instant
I became another of the
Earth’s billion sad
mothers.