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kami
USA
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 Posted - Jun 23 2013 : 11:49:00 AM
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Came across this referenced in Ram Dass's works: the Hsing-Hsing Ming attributed to the Third Zen Patriarch..
The Great Way is not difficult
For those not attached to preferences
When neither love nor hate arises,
all is clear and undisguised.
Separate by the smallest amount, however,
and you are as far from it as heaven is from earth.
If you wish to know the truth,
then hold to no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike
is the disease of the mind.
When the fundamental nature of things is not recognized
the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail.
The Way is perfect, as vast space is perfect,
where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess.
Indeed, it is due to our grasping and rejecting
that we do not know the true nature of things.
Live neither in the entanglements of outer things,
nor in ideas or feelings of emptiness.
Be serene and at one with things
and erroneous views will disappear by themselves. |
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maheswari
Lebanon
2516 Posts |
Posted - Jun 23 2013 : 3:02:10 PM
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beautiful...thx for sharing |
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jeff
USA
971 Posts |
Posted - Jun 23 2013 : 3:58:25 PM
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| Great quote. Thank you. |
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Bodhi Tree
2972 Posts |
Posted - Jun 23 2013 : 7:56:21 PM
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The Middle Way.  |
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kami
USA
920 Posts |
Posted - Jun 23 2013 : 9:31:47 PM
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Thank you all!
There's more of this magnificent work.
When you try to stop activity to achieve quietude,
your very effort fills you with activity.
As long as you remain attached to one extreme or another
you will never know Oneness.
Those who do not live in the Single Way,
cannot be free in either activity or quietude,
in assertion or denial.
Deny the reality of things
and you miss their reality;
Assert the emptiness of things
and you miss their reality.
The more you talk and think about it,
the further you wander from the truth.
So cease attachment to talking and thinking,
and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
To return to the root is to find the essence,
but to pursue appearances or "enlightenment" is to miss the Source
To awaken even for a moment
is to go beyond appearances and emptiness.
Changes that seem to occur in the empty world
we make real only because of our ignorance.
Do not seek for the truth;
only cease to cherish opinions.
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Anima
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Posted - Jul 01 2013 : 2:02:33 PM
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| Wonderful. Thank you. |
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