What do sad people
have in common? It seems they
have all built a shrine to the past and
often go there and do a strange
wail and worship.
What is the
beginning of happiness?
It is to stop being so
religious like
that.
In the ch’an perspective
wisdom is a state that is free from
attachments, free from measurement,
free from self-reference and
empty of vexation.
All craving or hatred
is forgetfulness of life. When accumulated
illusions are not cleared up, they interfere with perception
of the Way. This is why we need to give up cravings and abide in
nothingness, so that we have a basis for gradual clarification.
If we look back at our former cravings after that,
then we will naturally find them
unappealing…
If you still the body and quiet
the mind, myriad illnesses
will all vanish.
Treatise on Sitting Forgetting
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Meditate
within eternity.
Don’t stay in the mind.
Your thoughts are like a child
fretting near its mother’s breast,
restless and afraid, who with a
little guidance can find the
path of courage.
Abandonment
of self is freedom from desire.
Freedom from desire is freedom from distress.
No this, no that — just exquisite
emptiness.
Your
enlightenment
is right where you stand.
Look outside yourself no longer.
Dissolve your false understandings
completely and accept the
reality that mastery
is yours to
embody.
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Some people,
not knowing the essential emptiness
of good and evil, think practical cultivation of mind
means to sit rigidly immobile, subduing mind
and body, like a rock placed on
top of grass.
This is ludicrous.
That is why it is said that followers
cut off confusion in every state of mind,
yet the mind that does the cutting
off is a brigand.
…People who practice
the Way should not seek externally.
The essence of mind has no defilement; it is originally
complete and perfect of itself. Just detach from
illusory objects, and it is enlightened
to suchness as is.
