Search out the
point where your thoughts
arise and disappear. See where a thought
arises and vanishes. Keep this point in mind
and try to break right through it.
Take up this awareness as if
holding a sharp sword
in your hand.
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one cries out for a just resolution
One cries out for a just resolution.
This can only come if we quietly observe
proper principles. Avoid placing demands
on the universe, and success
will come.
second line
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
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one cannot realize satori by waiting
The Way transcends any aspect of
Going or coming,
Movement or quiescence,
So one cannot realize satori by
Waiting for it.
years of hunger beneath gojo bridge
nothing on your mind
Many times the mountains
have turned from green to yellow.
So much for the capricious earth!
Dust in your eyes,
the triple world is narrow.
Nothing on your mind,
your chair is wide enough.
the purging of mental toxins
The search
for happiness is not
about looking at life through
rose-colored glasses or blinding oneself
to the pain and imperfections of the world.
Nor is happiness a state of exultation
to be perpetuated at all costs; it is
the purging of mental toxins,
such as hatred and
obsession.