everything comes from your own heart


 

When you stop your

compulsive mind, to reach the point

where not a single thing is born, you pass

through to freedom, no longer falling

into feelings and not dwelling

on concepts, transcending

all completely.

 

Then Zen is obvious everywhere

in the world, with the totality of everything everywhere

turning into its great function. Everything comes from your

own heart. This is what one ancient called bringing

out the family treasure.
 

 

Yuanwu

zen letters

 

the practice of true reality

yanik chauvin

 
The practice of true reality is simply to sit serenely in silent introspection. When you have fathomed this you cannot be turned around by external causes and conditions. This empty, wide open mind is subtlety and correctly illuminating. Spacious and content, without confusion from inner thoughts or grasping, effectively overcome habitual behavior and realize the self that is not possessed by emotions.

You must be broad-minded, whole without relying on others. Such upright independent spirit can begin not to pursue degrading situations. Here you can rest and become clean, pure, and lucid. Bright and penetrating, you can immediately return, accord, and respond to deal with events.

Everything is unhindered; clouds gracefully floating up to the peaks, the moonlight glitteringly flowing down mountain streams. The entire place is brightly illumined and spiritually transformed, totally unobstructed and clearly manifesting responsive interaction like box and lid or arrow points meeting.

Continuing, cultivate and nourish yourself to enact maturity and achieve stability. If you accord everywhere with thorough clarity and cut off sharp corners without dependence on doctrines, like the white bull or wildcat helping to arouse wonder, you can be called a complete person.

So we hear that this is how one of the way of non-mind acts, but before realizing non-mind we still have great hardship.

 

Hongzhi Zhenjue

 

oneness with tao is freedom from harm

tinyao yang

 

Work toward 

emptiness and openness. 

Cultivate stillness. Breathe harmony. 

Become tranquility. As the ten thousand

things rise and fall, rise and fall, 

just witness their return

to the root.

 

Everything

that flourishes dissolves

again into the source. To dissolve

back into the source is to find peace. 

To find peace is to recover your true nature. 

To recover your true nature is to know

the constancy of tao. To know

the constancy of tao

is insight. 

 

Insight opens

your mind. An open

mind leads to an open heart. 

Open heartedness leads to justice. 

Justice is an expression of

divinity. Divinity is 

oneness with

tao. 

 

Oneness

with tao is freedom

from harm, indescribable

pleasure, eternal

life.

 

The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 16

 

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