First of all,
try to forget yourself
and rely on your true voice,
your voiceless voice, your nonverbal voice.
“Listen to the tongueless teaching,”
we say, don’t listen to my words.
Think about this.
branching streams flow in the darkness
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the spiritual athlete
The spiritual athlete often changes the color of his clothes,
and his mind remains gray and loveless.
He sits inside a shrine room all day,
so that the Guest has to go outdoors and praise the rocks.
Or he drills holes in his ears, his hair grows
enormous and matted,
people mistake him for a goat…
He goes out into wilderness areas, strangles his impulses,
and makes himself neither male nor female…
He shaves his skull, puts his robe in an orange vat,
reads the Bhagavad-Gita, and becomes a terrific talker.
Kabir says: Actually you are going in a hearse
to the country of death,
bound hand and foot!
a garden rich in delight
An unspectacular life
may be a garden rich in delight,
in queer paths, perfumed herbs, and
marble cloisters. “I live a life of no major
accomplishments,” said the oldest man
alive. High living is ephemeral, quick
to change; the light soon dims
among tower peaks.
all things are nonabiding
“i’m so grateful for having known him”
All things are set
on a nonabiding basis. The nonabiding basis is
based on nonabiding. If you can reach a thorough understanding
of this, then all things are One Suchness, and you cannot
find even the slightest signs
of abiding.
The whole of
your present activities and behavior
is nonabiding. Once the basis is clear to you,
it will be like having eyes: the sun is shining brightly,
and you can see all kinds of colors and
forms. Isn’t this the mainspring of
transcendent wisdom?
Yongjia said,
“Without leaving wherever you are,
there is constant clarity.” No words come closer
to the truth than these. If you start seeking, then we know
that you are unable to see. Just cut off any duality between
“wherever you are” and “constant clarity,” and make
yourself peaceful and serene. Avoid concocting
intellectual understanding and seeking.
As soon as you seek, it is like
grasping at shadows.
cling to what is calm and good
disengage from negative feelings
Your ego
is unsatisfied with
the path of correctness.
However, to strive out of desire
or despair will bring misfortune.
Cling to what is calm and good
no matter what others do,
and allow the Creative
to work in its
own time.
first changing line
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 36, Ming I / Darkening of the Light
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