
Heaven is in
everything: follow the light,
hide in the cloudiness and
begin in what is.

Heaven is in
everything: follow the light,
hide in the cloudiness and
begin in what is.

Nobody can set right
a mismanaged life with a few words.
But there is no pit you cannot climb out of provided
you make the right effort at the right place. When one is in a mess
like you are, one has no right any more to worry about the idiocy of one’s
own psychology, but must do the next thing with diligence and devotion
and earn the goodwill of others. In every littlest thing you do in this
way you will find yourself. Everyone has to do it the hard
way, and always with the next, the littlest,
and the hardest things.

As there is no self and no others
How can there be degrees of intimacy?
You should not lecture from assembly to assembly,
Since words do not lead directly to the Truth.
Prajñå being liked to the diamond
Should be free from even a speck of dust.
The entire sutra from beginning to end
Is nothing but deceitful words.
recorded sayings of layman p’ang

If you place your body in the realm
Of equanimity and non-contention,
And let your mind roam in the
Territory of evenness and non-disturbance,
And water them every day with
Fair words and fine deeds of sage worthies,
Then you are sure to progress.

To attain buddhahood we must
scatter this life’s aims and
objects to the wind.