If you wish
to bring the two matters
of birth and death to conclusion,
and pass directly beyond the triple-world,
you must penetrate the koan “This
very mind is Buddha.”
Tell me:
What is its principle?
How is it that this very mind
is Buddha? And “this very
mind” — just what is
it like?
Investigate it coming. Investigate it going.
Investigate it thoroughly and exhaustively.
All you have to do is keep this koan
constantly in your thoughts.
from The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Hexagram 4, Mêng / Youthful Folly
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It’s simple
to become a sage: all
that’s required is to burn up,
die, and cool into
ashes.
Rise early,
then, and set fire to
all you think and feel and
believe. Look beyond the smoke
of that pit into what is left:
emptiness filled with
emptiness.
Breathe it in.
Pour it out. Circulating
the Oneness without stopping,
endlessly renewing your determination,
working steadily day after day and
year upon year, you’ll find
yourself alert, rested,
illuminated.
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Be done
with knowing and
your worries will disappear.
How much difference is there between
yes and no? How much distinction between
good and evil? Fearing what others fear,
admiring what they admire —
nonsense.
Conventional
people are jolly and reckless,
feasting on worldly things and carrying on
as though every day were the beginning of spring.
I alone remain uncommitted, like an infant
who hasn’t yet smiled: lost, quietly
drifting, unattached to ideas
and places and
things.
Conventional
people hoard more than
they need, but I possess nothing
at all, know nothing at all,
understand nothing
at all.
They
are sharp; I am dull.
Like the sea, I am calm and
indifferent. Like the wind I
have no particular
direction.
Everyone
else takes his place and
does his job; I alone remain wild
and natural and free. I am different
from the others; I drink
directly from the
Mother.
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No teacher
or master is in possession of
your enlightenment. Ultimately only
you can free yourself. Just shed your delusions
like a sweaty shirt and slip into the stream of
zen and tao, empty minded, quiet hearted,
at rest in the midst of everything
and at peace with all
that occurs.
Polish yourself
on your own over and over
until you disappear, and you’ll wake up
right where you are. You’ll see straight
through the snares of the world and
pass freely into complete
realization.
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