Yongjia said,
“Without leaving where you are,
there is constant clarity.” No words come closer
to the truth than these. If you start seeking, then we
know that you are unable to see. Just cut off any duality
between “wherever you are” and “constant clarity”,
and make yourself peaceful and serene. Avoid
concocting intellectual understanding
and seeking. As soon as you seek,
it is like grasping at
shadows.
If in our daily life we
can smile, if we can be peaceful and
happy, not only we, but everyone will profit
from it. This is the most basic kind
of peace work.
Just as
the world can reveal itself
as particles, the Tao can reveal itself
as human beings. Though world and particles
aren’t the same, neither are they different.
Though the cosmic body and your
body aren’t the same, neither
are they different.
Worlds and particles,
bodies and beings, time and space:
all are transient expressions of the Tao.
Unseeable, ungraspable, the Tao is beyond
any attempt to analyze or categorize it.
At the same time, its truth is
everywhere you
turn.
If you
can let go of it
with your mind and
surround it with your
heart, it will live
inside you
forever.
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People yearn
for fame and fortune,
but this is like aching to taste the
point of a weapon. These are shallow,
confusing, empty of virtue — yet
people become fixed on them
and lose their way
forever.
Look closely
at things that shine
without substance. Fame
enflames one’s idea of self and
separates one from humanity. Touched
by it, people grasp desperately to
get and keep it. What is the
wisdom, though,
in resisting
change?
Fortune
is a lover similarly
impossible to satisfy.
Constantly demanding energy
and attention, fencing off people’s
hearts, it returns less and less to
the soul. Yet common people
contort themselves
into cripples
chasing
it.
See
the injury
built into these,
and let them
go by.
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The greatest
perfection seems imperfect,
yet its usefulness is endless. The greatest
fullness seems empty, yet its usefulness is inexhaustible.
Great straightness seems flexible. Great skill looks clumsy.
Great eloquence sounds awkward. Movement triumphs
over cold. Stillness triumphs over heat.
Clarity and tranquility set
the whole world
in order.
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