Just let your
mind be free; don’t
do contemplative exercises,
and don’t think of sorrow or worry.
Clear and unobstructed, free as you will,
not contriving virtues, not perpetrating evils,
walking, standing still, sitting, lying down, whatever
meets the eye, in any circumstance, is all the subtle
function of Buddha. It is called Buddahood
because of happiness without
sorrow.
treasury of the eye of true teaching
People of
the Way are quiet and
still, within and
without.
You
can now buy
Wei wu Wei Ching as part of a
five-app bundle of Taoist classics
for iPhone or iPad for less than
the cost of one hardcover
book.
For the unified mind
in accord with the Way all
self-centered striving ceases.
Doubts and irresolutions vanish
and life in true faith
is possible.
With a single stroke
we are freed from bondage:
nothing clings to us and we hold to nothing.
All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of
the mind’s power. Here thought, feeling, knowledge
and imagination are of no value. In this world
of suchness there is neither self
nor other-than-self.
To come directly
into harmony with this reality
just say when doubt rises “not two”.
In this “not two” nothing is
separate, nothing is
excluded.
As you
continue to practise,
please understand: there is
nothing to worry about. Establish
this feeling of being relaxed and unworried,
securely, in the mind. Once the mind is concentrated
and one-pointed, no mind-object will be able to penetrate
or disturb it, and you will be able to sit in the meditation
posture for as long as you want. You will also
be able to sustain concentration without
any feelings of pain and
discomfort.
Having
developed samadhi
to this level, you will be able
to enter or leave it at will. When you
leave it, it will be at your convenience.
You simply withdraw at your ease, rather
than because you are feeling lazy or tired.
You withdraw from samadhi because
it is the appropriate time to
withdraw from it, and you
come out of it at
your will.
You enter
and leave this samadhi
without any problems. The mind
and heart are at ease. If you genuinely have
samadhi like this, it means that sitting meditation
and entering samadhi for just thirty minutes or an hour
will enable you to remain cool and peaceful for many days
afterwards. Experiencing the effects of samadhi like this
for several days has a purifying effect on the mind.
Whatever you experience will become an object
for contemplation. This is where
the practice really begins. It is
the fruit which arises as
samadhi matures.
A truly
good person doesn’t
dwell on her goodness.
Thus she can be good.
A person of false goodness
never forgets her goodness.
Thus her goodness is
always false.
A truly
good person does nothing,
yet nothing remains undone.
A person of false goodness is forever
doing, yet everything remains
forever undone.
Those who
are interested in service
act without motive. Those who are
interested in righteousness act with
motives of all sorts. Those who are
interested in propriety act, and
receiving no response, they
roll up their sleeves
and use force.
When
Tao is lost,
goodness appears.
When goodness is lost,
philanthropy appears.
When philanthropy is lost,
justice appears.
When justice is lost,
only etiquette
is left.
Etiquette
is the faintest husk
of real loyalty and faith,
and it is the beginning of confusion.
Knowledge of the future is only
a blossom of Tao; to become
preoccupied with it
is folly.
Thus the
sage sets her sights
on the substance and not the
surface, on the fruit and not the
flower. Leaving the one,
she gains the
other.
from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,
ebooks & apps of the Tao the Ching, I Ching,
Hua hu Ching, and Art of War for
You
can now buy
Tao te Ching as part of a
five-app bundle of Taoist classics
for iPhone or iPad for less than
the cost of one hardcover
book.
