By seeking appearances and sounds One cannot truly find the Way.
The deep source of realization comes with constancy, bliss, self, and purity.
Its purity is constant, its bliss is myself.
The two are mutually dependent, like firewood and fire.
The self's bliss is not exhausted, constant purity has no end.
Deep existence is beyond forms.
Wisdom illuminates the inside of the circle.
Inside the circle the self vanishes, neither existent nor nonexistent.
Intimately conveying spiritual energy, it subtly turns the mysterious pivot.
When the mysterious pivot finds opportunity to turn, the original light auspiciously appears.
When the mind's conditioning has not yet sprouted, how can words and images be distinguished?
Who is it that can distinguish them?
Clearly understand and know by yourself.
Whole and inclusive with inherent insight, it is not concerned with discriminative thought.
When discriminating thought is not involved, it is like white reed flowers shining in the snow.
One beam of light's gleam permeates the vastness.
The gleam permeates through all directions, from the beginning not covered or concealed.
Catching the opportunity to emerge, amid transformations it flourishes.
Following appropriately amid transformations, the pure bliss is unchanged.
The sky encompasses it, the ocean seals it, every moment without deficiency.
In the achievement without deficiency, inside and outside are interfused.
All dharmas transcend their limits, all gates are wide open.
Through the open gates are the byways of playful wandering.
Dropping off senses and sense objects is like the flowers of our gazing and listening falling away.
Gazing and listening are only distant conditions of thousands of hands and eyes.
The others die from being too busy, but I maintain continuity.
In the wonder of continuity are no traces of subtle identifications.
Within purity is bliss, within silence is illumination.
The house of silent illumination is the hall of pure bliss.
Dwelling in peace and forgetting hardship, let go of adornments and become genuine.
The motto for becoming genuine: nothing is gained by speaking.
The goodness of Vimalakirti enters the gate of nonduality.
Guidepost for the Hall of Pure Bliss By Hongzhi Zhengjue (Wanshi Shogaku; 1091-1157)
{ the "Cultivating the Empty Field" version, translated by Dan Leighton / Yi Wu }
Hold on, what was that HongZhi?
The field of boundless emptiness is what exits from the very beginning.
You must purify, cure, grind down, or brush away all the tendencies you have fabricated into apparent habits.
Then you can reside in the clear circle of brightness.
Utter emptiness has no image, upright independence does not rely on anything.
Just expand and illuminate the original truth unconcerned by external conditions.
Accordingly we are told to realize that not a single thing exists.
In this field birth and death do not appear.
The deep source, transparent down to the bottom, can radiantly shine and can respond unencumbered to each speck of dust without becoming its partner.
The subtlety of seeing and hearing transcends mere colors and sounds.
The whole affair functions without leaving traces, and mirrors without obscurations.
Very naturally mind and dharmas emerge and harmonize.
An Ancient said that non-mind enacts and fulfills the way of non-mind.
Enacting and fulfilling the way of non-mind, finally you can rest.
Proceeding you are able to guide the assembly.
With thoughts clear, sitting silently, wander into the center of the circle of wonder.
This is how you must penetrate and study.
The Bright, Boundless Field By Hongzhi Zhengjue, from Practice Instructions: Dharma Words of Monk Hongzhi Zhengjue of Mount Tiantong in Ming Province.
Same translation team as above.
Not sure how to improve on that; besides it's time for bed.
Submitted March 03, 2022 at 09:07AM by NothingIsForgotten https://ift.tt/S7BpHYo
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