detachment from entanglements

no want is the greatest bliss

 

Severing entanglements

means detachmeht from entanglements

in contrived mundane concerns. Relinquish concerns

and your body will not be under a strain,

contrive nothing and your mind will

naturally be calm.

 

As serenity and simplicity

develop day by day, worldly defilement

lessens day by day. As your behavior departs further

and further from the mundane, your mind

becomes closer and closer

to the Way.

 

…As long as we do not

initiate anything, others will naturally

not get involved; even if others initiate something,

we do not get involved. As past entangelments gradually

stop, do not form new involvements. Ritual socializing

and opportunistic intercourse naturally become

remote, and you become unburdened

and at peace. Only then can you

practice the Way.

 

Treatise on Sitting Forgetting

translated by Thomas Cleary

 

all this teaching is just for you

the living expression

 

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

buddhasLao Tzu, Lalla, Rumi, Suzuki,

BahauddinYuanwu, all of them, alive in the

world. Only you can accomplish this. 

You are the only

one.

 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 13

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taken away by random thoughts

stop it

 

The reason you

do not understand is just

because you are taken away by random

thoughts twenty-four hours a day. Since you

want to learn business, you fall in love with things

you see and fondly pursue things you read;

over time, you get continuously involved.

How can you manage to work on

enlightenment then?

 

Foyan