Nowhere is there anything true

Nowhere is there anything true;

Don’t try to see the True in any way.

If you try to see the True,

Your seeing will be in no way true.

If you yourself would gain the True,

Separate from the false; there the mind is true.

If the mind itself does not separate from the false,

There is no True. What place is there for it to be?

Sentient beings can move,

Non-sentient things are without motion;

If you undertake the practices of non-motion,

You will be identical with the non-motion of the non-sentient.

If the true non-motion is observed,

It is but non-motion postulated on motion.

Non-motion is no more than no motion itself;

Non-sentient beings contain no Buddha seed.

Distinguishing well the forms [of the various dharmas],

Remain firm within the First Principle.

If you awaken and come to this view,

This then is the functioning of True Reality.

Let me tell all you students of the Way

That you must exert your utmost efforts.

Do not, in the teaching of the Mahāyāna,

Cling to the knowledge of birth and death.

When in the future you encounter a person you are destined to meet,

Then discuss together the words of the Buddha.

If he is really not such a person,

Then, with palms joined, have him strive for the good.

From the outset this teaching has never engaged in disputes;

Disputations will betray the intention of the Way.

If you cling to delusions and argue about the teaching,

Your own natures will enter into the cycle of birth and death.

-Huineng

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"Whatever is seen or heard or sensed

and fastened onto as true by others,

One who is Such — among the self-fettered —

wouldn't adhere to be true or even false.

"Having seen well in advance that arrow

where generations are fastened & hung

— 'I know, I see, that's just how it is!' —

there's nothing of the Tathagata fastened."

-Gautama Buddha

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Submitted November 12, 2018 at 02:40PM by ZaoPing https://ift.tt/2PT5oaa