Theme: “a poem on faith in mind”
an ancestral teacher said, "The ultimate Way has no difficulty; just avoid picking and choosing. Just don't hate and love, and it is thoroughly clear. The slightest deviation is as the distance between sky and earth. If you want it to appear, don't keep following or opposing." You Channists have each memorized this - but have you ever paid attention and understood? The ancestral teacher put a name on it, calling it a poem on faith in mind, just wanting people to believe this vast peaceful subtle mind is certainly not obtained from another.
an except from that poem
The erring mind begets tranquillity and confusion;
In enlightenment there are no likes or dislikes.
The duality of all things
Issues from false discriminations.
A dream, an illusion, a flower in the sky
How could they be worth grasping?
Gain and loss, right and wrong
Discard them all at once.
Romantics seem to want flowers in the sky more than the real thing
a flower that’s real is not pretty enough
Although maybe I`m accusing them of something
that they didn’t commit
To want the fake instead of the real
or instead of nothing at all
“Something is not better than nothing”
Is there anything that isn’t fake?
True beauty is different from just appearance,
Impermanence, and changes too
Don’t worry too much,
Just write
Submitted March 31, 2023 at 10:00PM by 2bitmoment https://ift.tt/4Fmx0j9
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