Affirming Faith In Mind
The
Great Way is not difficult for those who do not pick and choose.
When preferences
are cast aside the Way stands clear and undisguised.
But even slight distinctions
made set earth and heaven far apart.
If you would clearly see the truth, discard
opinions pro and con.
To founder in dislike and like is nothing but the mind's
disease.
And not to see the Way's deep truth disturbs the mind's essential
peace.
The Way is perfect like vast space, where there's no lack and no excess.
Our
choice to choose and to reject prevents our seeing this simple truth.
Both
striving for the outer world as well as for the inner void condemn us to entangled
lives.
Just calmly see that all is One, and by themselves false views will
go.
Attempts to stop activity will fill you with activity.
Remaining in
duality, you'll never know of unity.
And not to know this unity lets conflict
lead you far astray.
When you assert that things are real you miss their true
reality.
But to assert that things are void also misses reality.
The more
you talk and think on this the further from the truth you'll be.
Cut off all
useless thought and words And there's nowhere you cannot go.
Returning to the
root itself, you'll find the meaning of all things.
If you pursue appearances
you overlook the primal source.
Awakening is to go beyond both emptiness as
well as form.
All changes in this empty world seem real because of ignorance.
Do
not go search for the truth, just let those fond opinions go.
Abide not in
duality, refrain from all pursuit of it.
If there's a trace of right and wrong,
True-mind is lost, confused, distaught.
From One-mind comes duality, but cling
not even to this One.
When this One-mind rests undisturbed, then nothing in
the world offends.
And when no thing can give offense, then all obstructions
cease to be.
If all thought-objects disappear, the thinking subject drops away.
For
things are things because of mind, as mind is mind because of things.
These
two are merely relative, and both at source are Emptiness.
In Emptiness these
are not two, yet in each are contained all forms.
Once coarse and fine are
seen no more, then how can there be taking sides?
The Great Way is without
limit, beyond the easy and the hard.
But those who hold to narrow views are
fearful and irresolute; their frantic has just slows them down.
If you're attached
to anything, you surely will go far astray.
Just let go now of clinging mind,
and all things are just as they are. In essense nothing goes or stays.
See
into the true self of things, and you're in step with the Great Way, thus walking
freely, undisturbed.
But live in bondage to your thoughts, and you will be
confused, unclear.
This heavy burden weighs you down-- O why keep judging good
and bad?
If you would walk the highest Way, do not reject the sense domain.
For
as it is, whole and complete, This sense world is enlightenment.
The wise do
not strive after goals, but fools themselves in bondage put.
The One Way knows
no differences, the foolish cling to this and that.
To seek Great Mind with
thinking mind is certainly a grave mistake.
From small mind come rest and unrest,
but mind awakened transcends both.
Delusion spawns dualities-- these dreams
are nought but flowers of air-- why work so hard at grasping them?
Both gain
and loss, and right and wrong-- once and for all get rid of them.
When you
no longer are asleep, all dreams will vanish by themselves.
If mind does not
discriminate, all things are as they are, as One.
To go to this mysterious
Source frees us from all entanglements.
When all is seen with "equal mind,"
to our Self-nature we return.
This single mind goes right beyond all reasons
and comparisons.
Stop movement and there's no movement, stop rest and no-rest
comes instead.
When rest and no-rest cease to be, then even oneness disappears.
This
ultimate finality's beyond all laws, can't be described.
With single mind one
with the Way, all ego-centered strivings cease;
Doubts and confusion disappear,
and so true faith pervades our life.
There is no thing that clings to us, and
nothing that is left behind.
All's self-revealing, void and clear, without
exerting power of mind.
Thought cannot reach this state of truth, here feelings
are of no avail.
In this true world of Emptiness both self and other are no
more.
To enter this true empty world, immediately affirm "not-two".
In
this "not-two" all is the same, with nothing separate or outside.
The
wise in all times and places awaken to this primal truth.
The Way's beyond
all space, all time, one instant is ten thousand years.
Not only here, not
only there, truth's right before you very eyes.
Distinctions such as large
and small have relevance for you no more.
The largest is the smallest too--
here limitations have no place.
What is is not, what is not is-- if this is
not yet clear to you, you're still far from the inner truth.
One thing is all,
all things are one-- know this and all's whole and complete.
When faith and
Mind are not separate, and not separate are Mind and faith, this is beyond all
words, all thought.
For here there is no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow.