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do not even do this non-doing

on this date a buddha was born

 

A monk asked Chao Chou,

“Does a dog also have the Buddha nature, or not?”

Chao Chou replied, ‘Mu.’ This Mu is not the Mu of yes or no;

it is not the Mu of true nonexistence. Ultimately what is it?

To reach that place from where Chao Chou said Mu

one must straightaway lay down

the entire body.

 

Do not do anything

(good or bad) and do not even do this

not-doing; then straightaway one reaches that place

where there is no concern for external affairs, that vast

and peaceful place where there are absolutely

no obstructing thoughts.

 

There, all thoughts

of the past are extinguished,

all thoughts of the future do not arise,

and all present thoughts

are void.

 

T’aego Pou

 

just don’t seek from another

his imaginary holiness the flying spaghetti monster

 

Just don’t seek from another

Or you’ll be far estranged from the Way.

I now go on alone

Meeting it everywhere

It now is just what I am

I now am one with it.

You must comprehend in this way

To merge with thusness.

 

…

 

Students as numerous as

sands in the Ganges but none are awakened.

They err by searching for the path in another person’s mouth.

If you wish to forget form and not leave any traces,

wholeheartedly strive to walk

in emptiness.

 

Dongshan Liangjie

 

do the next thing with devotion

it’s not always about the men

 

Nobody can set right

a mismanaged life with a few words.

But there is no pit you cannot climb out of provided

you make the right effort at the right place. When one is in a mess

like you are, one has no right any more to worry about the idiocy of one’s

own psychology, but must do the next thing with diligence and devotion

and earn the goodwill of others. In every littlest thing you do in this

way you will find yourself. Everyone has to do it the hard

way, and always with the next, the littlest,

and the hardest things.

 

C.G. Jung

the red book