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don’t long for heavens or fear hells
Don’t
seek a Buddha,
don’t seek a teaching,
don’t seek a community.
Don’t seek virtue, knowledge,
intellectual understanding, and
so on. When feelings of defilement
and purity are ended, still don’t hold
to this non-seeking and consider it right.
Don’t dwell at the point of ending, and
don’t long for heavens or fear hells.
When you are unhindered by
bondage or freedom, then
this is called liberation
of mind and body in
all places.
everything born in this world is empty
Students,
sit earnestly in zazen,
and you will realize that everything
born in this world is ultimately empty,
including oneself and the original face of existence.
All things indeed emerge out of emptiness. This original
formlessness is “Buddha,” and all other similar terms — Buddha-
nature, Buddhahood, Buddha-mind, Awakened One, Patriarch,
God — are merely different expressions for the same
emptiness. Misunderstand this and you
will end up distracted
for eons.
place your esteem on the tao
He who desires
the admiration of the world
will do well to amass a great fortune
and then give it away. The world will respond
with admiration in proportion to the size
of his treasure. Of course, this
is meaningless.
Stop striving after
admiration. Place your esteem on
the tao. Live in accord with it, share with
others the teachings that lead to it,
and you will be immersed in the
blessings that flow
from it.
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know that enough is enough
When
the world practices Tao,
horses fertilize the fields. When
the world ignores Tao,
horses are bred for
war.
There is no
greater calamity than
desire, no greater curse than greed.
Know that enough is enough,
and you’ll always have
enough.
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