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The Ultimate Way
is without difficulty; just
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choosing.
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subtle wonder within mysterious darkness
Tao is beyond words
and beyond understanding.
Words may be used to speak of
it, but they cannot
contain it.
Tao existed before
words and names, before heaven and earth,
before the ten thousand things. It is the unlimited
father and mother of all limited things. Therefore, to see
beyond all boundaries to the subtle heart of things,
dispense with names, with concepts,
with expectations and ambitions
and differences.
Tao and its many manifestations
arise from the same source: subtle wonder
within mysterious darkness. This
is the beginning of all
understanding.
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This reality
cannot be covered by the skies
or held up by the earth. Space cannot contain it.
It abides within all sentient beings and is the support
on which all of them rest. It has always been
clean and naked. There is nowhere
it does not pervade.
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practiced under fire
A spiritual understanding
that is not practiced under fire is without
value; only by applying our knowledge in trying
situations do we come into genuine
possession of it.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
(full text here)
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mental processes lead to error
Men are afraid
to forget their minds,
fearing to fall through the Void
with nothing to stay their fall. They
do not know that the Void is not
really void, but the realm of
the real Dharma.
So you students
of the Way should immediately
refrain from all conceptual thought.
Let a tacit understanding be all!
Any mental processes must
lead to error.
simply release your grasp
Simply
release your grasp
on worldly entanglements,
and realization is right
where you
stand.
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