detachment from entanglements

no want is the greatest bliss

 

Severing entanglements

means detachmeht from entanglements

in contrived mundane concerns. Relinquish concerns

and your body will not be under a strain,

contrive nothing and your mind will

naturally be calm.

 

As serenity and simplicity

develop day by day, worldly defilement

lessens day by day. As your behavior departs further

and further from the mundane, your mind

becomes closer and closer

to the Way.

 

…As long as we do not

initiate anything, others will naturally

not get involved; even if others initiate something,

we do not get involved. As past entangelments gradually

stop, do not form new involvements. Ritual socializing

and opportunistic intercourse naturally become

remote, and you become unburdened

and at peace. Only then can you

practice the Way.

 

Treatise on Sitting Forgetting

translated by Thomas Cleary

 

inner wealth and outer fortune

anne hardy

 

Inner wealth

consists of modesty, balance,

understanding, and compassion for others.

When you have achieved this, your

outer fortune will be

unlimited.

 

fifth changing line

from The I Ching, or Book of Changes

Hexagram 48, Ching / The Well

 

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taken away by random thoughts

stop it

 

The reason you

do not understand is just

because you are taken away by random

thoughts twenty-four hours a day. Since you

want to learn business, you fall in love with things

you see and fondly pursue things you read;

over time, you get continuously involved.

How can you manage to work on

enlightenment then?

 

Foyan