Translated by the Chung Tai Translation Committee, November 2008, from the Chinese by the Third Patriarch Seng Can, 6th Century.
Excerpted,
The more you talk and think, the more you go astray;
Cease all speech and thought, then everywhere you are with the Way.
To attain the principle, return to the source; pursuing reflections, the essence is lost.
Inner illumination, in a moment, surpasses idle emptiness.
The appearance of this idle emptiness results entirely from deluded views.
No need to search for truth: just put to rest all views.
Abide not in dualistic views; take heed not to pursue them.
As soon as right and wrong arise, the mind is bewildered and lost.
Two comes from one. Hold on not even to one.
When not even one thought arises, all dharmas are flawless.
Free of flaws, free of dharmas, no arising, no thought.
The subject disappears with its object; the object vanishes without its subject.
Objects are objects because of subjects. Subjects are subjects because of objects.
Know that these two are essentially of one emptiness.
The one emptiness unites opposites, equally pervading all phenomena.
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To enter the One Vehicle, be not prejudiced against the six dusts.
To have no prejudice toward the six dusts is to come into true enlightenment.
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Dreams, illusions, like flowers in the sky -- how can they be worth grasping?
Gain and loss, right and wrong -- abandon these at once.
If your eyes are open, dreams will naturally cease.
If the mind makes no distinctions, all dharmas are of One Suchness.
In the profound essence of this Suchness, one abandons all conditioning.
Beholding the myriad dharmas in their entirety, things return to their natural state.
As all grounds for distinction vanish, nothing can be compared or described.
When what is still moves, there is no motion; when what is moving stops, there is no stillness.
Nothing to linger upon, nothing to remember.
Clear, empty, and self-illuminating, the mind exerts no effort.
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One is everything; everything is one.
If you can realize this, why worry about not reaching perfection?
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