My daily affairs are quite ordinary; but I'm in total harmony with them. I don't hold on to anything, don't reject anything; nowhere an obstacle or conflict. Who cares about wealth and honor? Even the poorest thing shines. My miraculous power and spiritual activity: drawing water and carrying wood.
The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.
How miraculous and wondrous, hauling water and carrying firewood!
Food and clothes sustain
Body and life;
I advise you to learn
Being as is.
When it's time,
I move my hermitage and go,
And there's nothing
To be left behind.
When I chop wood, I chop wood. When I carry water, I carry water.
How wondrously supernatural, And how miraculous this! I draw water, and I carry fuel.
I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even a speck of dust. From "Thus we have heard," to "This I believe," All is but an array of unreal names.
Wandering Ronin commentary: The more I read about this Layman Pang fellow, the more I find of interest in his life and what he has to share. I've heard him quoted often in some way here in the community without knowing exactly where the sayings were originally from. If you are familiar with him, I invite you to share with us what you've heard from this Layman Pang or anything of interest regarding him and his life.
Submitted February 25, 2018 at 10:04PM by WanderingRonin77 http://ift.tt/2GJf130
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