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every thing is no thing
Whip
and tether, self
and bull, every thing
is no thing. The clear blue
sky is unmarked by a message.
Could a snowflake persist
in a flaming fire? This
is the place of
masters.
gradual cultivation
You must keep this
mind balanced and equanimous,
without deluded ideas of self and others,
without arbitrary loves and hates, without grasping
or rejecting, without notions of gain and loss.
Go on gradually nurturing this for
a long time, perhaps twenty
or thirty years.
Whether you encounter
favorable or adverse conditions,
do not retreat or regress — then when you
come to the juncture between life and death,
you will naturally be set free and be not afraid.
As the saying goes, “Truth requires sudden
awakening, but the phenomenal
level calls for gradual
cultivation.”
oneness with tao is your true nature
Work toward
emptiness and openness.
Cultivate stillness. Breathe harmony.
Become tranquility. As the ten thousand
things rise and fall, rise and fall,
just witness their return
to the root.
Everything
that flourishes dissolves
again into the source. To dissolve
back into the source is to find peace.
To find peace is to recover your true nature.
To recover your true nature is to know
the constancy of Tao. To know
the constancy of Tao
is insight.
Insight opens
your mind. An open
mind leads to an open heart.
Open heartedness leads to justice.
Justice is an expression of
divinity. Divinity is
oneness with
Tao.
Oneness
with Tao is freedom
from harm, indescribable
pleasure, eternal
life.
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do non-doing and inherit the universe
Why
wait around for
a teacher? Pick up a staff
and knock the sense out of
yourself, so you can
enter eternity.
The ancestors
are everywhere around you,
offering the silent light of truth.
Put down what you’re doing with
your mind and pick up that up.
Do non-doing, and you’ll
inherit the whole
universe.
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