Through cross-legged sitting dhyana, in the end you will necessarily see the Original Nature.
Inevitably you will fuse and purify mind.
If for a split second [thought] arises, [you will be in the conditioned realm of] arising and extinguishing.
In the midst [of birth and death], to remember thoughts is [like a Buddhist aspirant] engaging in an improper means of livelihood.
You may search for Dharma and surmise various things, but your karma will not be changed.
Given revolving and increasing defilement, mind finds it difficult to reach the ultimate.
The wise one, upon suddenly hearing the eight characters, awakens to principle.
He realizes for the first time that his six years of ascetic activity were in vain.
All over the world, everywhere, are the people of the Evil One.
Who clamor in vain and engage in meaningless arguments.
Making false explanations, they teach sentient beings.
Talking about remedies, they cure not one disease.
Things have always been in a state of quiescence and there has never existed a perceiving subject.
How could there be good and evil, false and correct?
Even arising is no-arising, even extinguishing is no extinguishing.
Moving is no moving, concentration is no concentration.
Verses on Devices for Entering the Path [Ju-tao fang-pien chi] from The Bodhidharma Anthology
Submitted February 11, 2022 at 01:33PM by NothingIsForgotten https://ift.tt/HuGXgpw
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