
Patch-robed monks
practice thoroughly without carrying
a single thread. Open-mindedly sparkling and pure,
they are like a mirror reflecting a mirror, with
nothing regarded as outside, without
capacity for accumulating
dust.

Patch-robed monks
practice thoroughly without carrying
a single thread. Open-mindedly sparkling and pure,
they are like a mirror reflecting a mirror, with
nothing regarded as outside, without
capacity for accumulating
dust.

All obstructions
of defilements and karmas of worry
and trouble, are in origin, empty. All causes and
effects are dreams and illusions. The great Way is empty
and vast. It is beyond thought and deliberation.
You, at this instant, have this dharma
and are without lack.

As my love
and my faith and my interest in
the inner grew, the darkness diminished,
within and without, and Lalla lost
herself in that light.

The
point in life
is to know what’s enough —
why envy those otherworld mortals?
With the happiness held in one
inch-square heart you can
fill the whole space
between heaven
and earth.

Plant yourself
firmly in the Tao and
you won’t ever be uprooted.
Embrace Tao firmly and you won’t
ever be separated from it. Your
children will thrive, and
your children’s
children.
Cultivate
goodness in your self,
and goodness will be genuine.
Cultivate it in your family, and goodness
will flourish. Cultivate it in your community,
and goodness will grow and multiply.
Cultivate it in your country, and
goodness will be abundant.
Cultivate it in the world,
and goodness will be
everywhere.
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the world works like this?
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