Those who cultivate purification
must let it come forth from their own
hearts in each individual situation,
covering the entire universe.
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you are the living expression of this
If
the Way
were about being
a student of something,
it wouldn’t be alive in the world.
It lives because certain people say to
themselves, “All this teaching is
just for me. I am the living
expression of
this.”
This
isn’t arrogant.
This is humbly keeping the
buddhas, Lao Tzu, Lalla, Rumi, Suzuki,
Bahauddin, Yuanwu, all of them, alive in the
world. Only you can accomplish this.
You are the only
one.
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this is what you shall do
This
is what you
shall do: Love the earth
and sun and the animals, despise riches,
give alms to every one that asks, stand up for
the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor
to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have
patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat
to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young
and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open
air every season of every year of your life, reexamine all you
have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss
whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall
be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only
in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and
face and between the lashes of your eyes
and in every motion and
joint of your
body.
don’t use the mind to invoke a buddha
Buddhas don’t save buddhas.
If you use your mind to look for a buddha,
you won’t see the buddha.
As long as you look
for a buddha somewhere else,
you’ll never see that your own mind
is the buddha. And don’t use a
buddha to worship
a buddha.
And don’t use the mind to invoke a buddha.
Buddhas don’t recite sutras.
Buddhas don’t keep precepts.
And buddhas don’t break precepts.
Buddhas don’t keep or break anything.
Buddhas don’t do good or evil.
no use fretting over gold
No use fretting over gold, beauty, or fame;
Nurturing these, how can we calm our
Fluttering heart?
Non-attachment brings deep truth,
And a truthful nature brings immortality.
Empty your heart.
Sit quietly on a mat.
In meditation we become one with All;
Tao billows like the vapors in a mountain valley,
And its supernatural power wafts into our soul.
within us there is another beauty