With thoughts clear,
sitting silently, wander into the
centre of the circle of wonder. This is
how you must penetrate
and study.
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a real tao in everyday activities
There is a true buddha
in family life; there is a real tao
in everyday activities. If people can
be sincere and harmonious, promoting
communication with a cheerful demeanor
and friendly words, that is much better
than formal meditation
practice.
we all have the clear bright field
Emptiness is without characteristics.
Illumination has no emotional afflictions.
With piercing, quietly profound radiance,
it mysteriously eliminates all disgrace.
Thus one can know oneself; thus
the self is completed.
We all have the clear,
wondrously bright field from the beginning.
Many lifetimes of misunderstanding come only from
distrust, hindrance, and screens of confusion that we create
in a scenario of isolation. With boundless wisdom
journey beyond this, forgetting
accomplishments.
Straightforwardly abandon stratagems
and take on responsibility. Having turned yourself around,
accepting your situation, if you set foot on the path, spiritual energy
will marvelously transport you. Contact phenomena with
total sincerity, not a single atom of dust
outside yourself.
persevering in simplicity
Do
you wish
to realize the Way?
Dissolve everything instantly,
like a drop of water
hitting a red-hot
coal.
Forget
thoughts and
feelings and ideas of self.
Remaining ordinary, foregoing airs,
persevering in simplicity for years
and decades, you enter
into the Oneness,
and it into
you.
tao te ching ☯️ chapter 80
Let there be small
countries with few people.
Let the people have no use for
complicated machinery. Let them be
mindful of death so that they
don’t move too far from
their birthplaces.
If there be boats and carriages,
let there be nowhere to take them to.
If there are weapons, let there
be no occasion to display them.
Let the people’s
responsibilities be few enough
that they may remember them
by knotting a string.
Let them
enjoy their food,
be content with their clothes,
be satisfied with their homes,
and take pleasure in
their customs.
Though
the next country
may be close enough
to hear the barking of its dogs
and the crowing of its roosters,
let the people grow old and
die without feeling
compelled to
visit it.
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