cast aside all thoughts

enlightenment is not apart from the world

 

To be unstained

in all environments is called no-thought…

If you stop thinking of the myriad things, and cast aside

all thoughts, as soon as one instant of thought is

cut off, you enter another realm.

 

The Dharma of no-thought means:

even though you see all things, you do not

attach to them, but, always keeping your own nature

pure, cast the six thieves of the senses to

exit through the six gates.

 

Even though you are

in the midst of the six dusts,

you do not stand apart from them,

yet are not stained by them, and

are free to come and go.

 

Hui Neng

the platform sutra

full text

 

trying to take the place of god

this is how it ends

 

If people don’t love life,

they won’t fear death, and threatening

them with it won’t work. If people have lives worth

living, then the threat of death is meaningful,

and they’ll do what is right

to avoid it.

 

Killing

should be the province

of the great executioner alone.

Trying to take his place and kill is like

cutting wood in the place of the

master carpenter: chances

are you’ll hurt your

own hand.

 

The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,

Chapter 74

 

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