How many ignorant people in the world try to seek the Way by means of the Way! Searching widely amongst a profusion of doctrines, they cannot even save themselves. Only pursuing the confused explanations of others’ writings, they claim to have arrived at the subtlety of noumenon.
Wasting a life in idle labors, they sink forever in birth and death. When polluted attachment binds the mind unrelentingly, the mind of pure knowledge afflicts itself; the forest of the cosmos of realities turns into a wasteland of brambles.
As long as you cling to yellow leaves as gold, you won’t know to give up the gold for jewels. The reason you lose your mind and run around crazily is that you forcibly try to keep up appearances; you may be reciting scriptures and treatises in your mouth, but in your heart you’re always lifeless.
If you realize the original mind is empty some day, the fullness of reality as is will not leave you lacking.
~ Pao-chih
From "The Zen Reader" by Thomas Cleary
Submitted July 16, 2020 at 03:28PM by mojo-power https://ift.tt/2CA7gzD
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