Faith in Mind
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. When the deep meaning of things is not understood, the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail.
The Way is perfect like vast space where nothing is lacking and nothing in excess. Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not see the true nature of things.
Live neither in the entanglements of outer things, nor in inner feelings of emptiness. Be serene in the oneness of things and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves.
NOTES FROM AN 🦉
Faith or belief, what is more poisonous to the Zen faithful, the believers of Zen? Like a poison pill they swallow, the full knowledge of what they do. What forgiveness is there for this ilk, who err in the full acknowledgement of their shortcomings?
The great way is not difficult, the Great sages have make this concession from the start, why then do those who walk this path labor under so many misapprehensions? Cling not to your children nor your parents, and least of all to yourself! Clarity arises only when bias is laid to rest.
Not understanding is closest, and nowhere is safe. Make not a nest of a burning building and allow all things to occur as they will, without the slightest arisement of a notion towards how things ought to be.
Great distress comes to those who meddle, chasing the leaves and not the fundamental.
Submitted March 11, 2023 at 06:15AM by Owlsdoom https://ift.tt/6JpjbIy
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