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 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 thoughts 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
Awaking is to go beyond
both emptiness as well as form
All changes in this empty world
seem real because of ignorance
Do not go searching for the truth
just let those fond opinions go
Abide not in duality
refrain from all pursuit of it
Just let go now of clinging mind
and all things are just as they are
in essence 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
so 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 comes rest and unrest
but mind awakened transcends both
Delusion spawns dualities –
these dreams are merely flow'rs of air-
why work so hard at grasping them?
If there's a trace of right and wrong
True-mind is lost, confused, distraught.
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 & 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 haste just slows them down
If you're attached to anything
you surely will go far astray
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 comparison
Seek movement and there is no movement
see rest and no-rest comes instead
When rest and no –rest cease to be
then even oneness disappears
The 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 time 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 your 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
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When faith and Mind are not separate
and not separate are Mind and faith
this is beyond all words, all thoughts
For here there is no yesterday
no tomorrow
no today