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.
in one’s mind there is a source
jacob wrestling with the enemy
One learns to understand
that there is a world in one’s self,
that in one’s mind there is a source of happiness
and unhappiness, the source of health and illness, the source of light
and darkness, and that it can be awakened, either mechanically or at will,
if only one knew how to do it. Then one does not blame his ill fortune
nor complain of his fellow man. He becomes more tolerant,
more joyful, and more loving toward his neighbor,
because he knows the cause of every thought
and action, and he sees it all as the
effect of a certain cause.
A physician would not
revenge himself on a patient in an asylum,
even if the patient hit him, for he knows the cause.
Psychology is the higher alchemy, and one must not study
it only without practicing it. Practice and study must
go together, which opens the door to
happiness for every soul.