June 1st through June 3rd
Please begin fresh. (what other way is there?)
Please continue to read the chant.
Focus on the next two paragraphs.
Add JUST the word or words from the text that strike you. Nothing else. Just the words of the text from the two colored paragraphs.
Thank you.
Faith in Mind
(attributed to the Third Ancestor, Kanchi Sosan)
Attaining the Way is not difficult, just avoid picking and choosing. If you have neither aversion nor desire, you'll thoroughly understand. A hair's breath difference is the gap between heaven and earth. If you want it to come forth, let there be no positive and negative, for such comparisons are a sickness of the mind. Without knowing the Great Mystery, quiet practice is useless. The great perfection is the same as vast space, lacking nothing, nothing extra. Due to picking up and discarding, you will not know it. Don't chase the conditioned nor abide in forbearing emptiness.
In singular equanimity the self is extinguished. Ceasing movement and returning to stillness, this is complete movement. But only suppress the two aspects, how can you realize unity? Not penetrating the one, the two lose their life. Reject existence and you fall into it, pursue emptiness and you move away from it. With many words and thoughts you miss what is right before you. Cutting off words and thought, nothing remains unpenetrated. Return to the root and attain the essence, for if you chase the light you'll lose the way. But if you reflect the light for only a moment, all previous shadows are dispelled. All previous shadows are transformed because they were all due to delusive views. It's no use to seek the truth; just let false views cease.
Don't abide in duality and take care not to seek, for as soon as there is yes and no the mind is lost in confusion. Two comes forth from one, but don't even hold the one, for when even the one mind is unborn, the myriad things are flawless, without flaws, without things. With no birth, no mind, function is lost to conditions, conditions persist in function, conditions arise from function, function is actualized from conditions. You should know that duality is originally one with emptiness, and one emptiness unifies duality, encompassing the myriad forms. Not perceiving refined or vulgar, is there any prejudice? The Great Way is vast, with neither ease nor difficulty. If you have biased views and doubts, and move too fast or slow, grasping the world without measure, then your mind has taken a wayward path. Let it all naturally drop away and embody no coming or going. In accord with your fundamental nature, unite with the Way and wander the world without cares.
Being tied by thought runs counter to Truth, but sinking into a daze is not good. Don't belabor the spirit. Why adhere to intimate or distant? If you want to experience the one vehicle, don't malign the senses, for when the senses are not maligned, that itself is perfect awakening. The wise do not move, but the ignorant bind themselves. Though one Dharma differs not from another, the deluded self desires each, objectifying the mind to realize mind. Is this not a great error? Delusion gives rise to quietness or chaos, but enlightenment has no positive and negative. The duality of existence is born from false discrimination, flourishing dreams, and empty illusions. Why try to grab them? Gain and loss, true and false: drop them all in one moment. If the eyes don't sleep, all dreams disappear. If the mind does not go astray, the myriad Dharmas are but One, and the One encompasses the Mystery.
In stillness, conditioned existence is forgotten, and the myriad things are seen equally, naturally returning to each one's own nature. When all dharmas are extinguished, it is immeasurable. Cease movement and no movement exists, when movement stops there is no cessation. Since two are not manifest, how is there even one? Finally, ultimately, principles do not exist. Bring forth the mind of equanimity and all activities will be put to rest, all doubts extinguished. True faith is upright and nothing then remains, nothing is remembered, and the empty brightness shines naturally, without effort of mind. There, not a thought can be measured. Reason and emotion can't conceive it. In the Dharma realm of true thusness, there is neither one nor self.
One should not hasten to behold it. Just say, "Not two," for in "not two" all things are united and there’s nothing not included. The wise ones of the ten directions have entered this great understanding, an understanding which neither hastens nor tames. In ten thousand years, a single thought, not to be found within "existence and nonexistence," but meeting the eye in the ten directions. The smallest is no different from the largest; eliminating boundaries, the largest is the same as the smallest. Not seeing divisions, existence is but emptiness; emptiness, existence.
That which is not of this principle must not be preserved. The one is everything; everything, the one. If your understanding is this, what is left to accomplish? Faith and mind are undivided, nonduality is both faith and mind. The way of words is cut off, leaving no past, no future, no present.
Please continue to read the chant.
Focus on the next two paragraphs.
Add JUST the word or words from the text that strike you. Nothing else. Just the words of the text from the two colored paragraphs.
Thank you.
Faith in Mind
(attributed to the Third Ancestor, Kanchi Sosan)
Attaining the Way is not difficult, just avoid picking and choosing. If you have neither aversion nor desire, you'll thoroughly understand. A hair's breath difference is the gap between heaven and earth. If you want it to come forth, let there be no positive and negative, for such comparisons are a sickness of the mind. Without knowing the Great Mystery, quiet practice is useless. The great perfection is the same as vast space, lacking nothing, nothing extra. Due to picking up and discarding, you will not know it. Don't chase the conditioned nor abide in forbearing emptiness.
In singular equanimity the self is extinguished. Ceasing movement and returning to stillness, this is complete movement. But only suppress the two aspects, how can you realize unity? Not penetrating the one, the two lose their life. Reject existence and you fall into it, pursue emptiness and you move away from it. With many words and thoughts you miss what is right before you. Cutting off words and thought, nothing remains unpenetrated. Return to the root and attain the essence, for if you chase the light you'll lose the way. But if you reflect the light for only a moment, all previous shadows are dispelled. All previous shadows are transformed because they were all due to delusive views. It's no use to seek the truth; just let false views cease.
Don't abide in duality and take care not to seek, for as soon as there is yes and no the mind is lost in confusion. Two comes forth from one, but don't even hold the one, for when even the one mind is unborn, the myriad things are flawless, without flaws, without things. With no birth, no mind, function is lost to conditions, conditions persist in function, conditions arise from function, function is actualized from conditions. You should know that duality is originally one with emptiness, and one emptiness unifies duality, encompassing the myriad forms. Not perceiving refined or vulgar, is there any prejudice? The Great Way is vast, with neither ease nor difficulty. If you have biased views and doubts, and move too fast or slow, grasping the world without measure, then your mind has taken a wayward path. Let it all naturally drop away and embody no coming or going. In accord with your fundamental nature, unite with the Way and wander the world without cares.
Being tied by thought runs counter to Truth, but sinking into a daze is not good. Don't belabor the spirit. Why adhere to intimate or distant? If you want to experience the one vehicle, don't malign the senses, for when the senses are not maligned, that itself is perfect awakening. The wise do not move, but the ignorant bind themselves. Though one Dharma differs not from another, the deluded self desires each, objectifying the mind to realize mind. Is this not a great error? Delusion gives rise to quietness or chaos, but enlightenment has no positive and negative. The duality of existence is born from false discrimination, flourishing dreams, and empty illusions. Why try to grab them? Gain and loss, true and false: drop them all in one moment. If the eyes don't sleep, all dreams disappear. If the mind does not go astray, the myriad Dharmas are but One, and the One encompasses the Mystery.
In stillness, conditioned existence is forgotten, and the myriad things are seen equally, naturally returning to each one's own nature. When all dharmas are extinguished, it is immeasurable. Cease movement and no movement exists, when movement stops there is no cessation. Since two are not manifest, how is there even one? Finally, ultimately, principles do not exist. Bring forth the mind of equanimity and all activities will be put to rest, all doubts extinguished. True faith is upright and nothing then remains, nothing is remembered, and the empty brightness shines naturally, without effort of mind. There, not a thought can be measured. Reason and emotion can't conceive it. In the Dharma realm of true thusness, there is neither one nor self.
One should not hasten to behold it. Just say, "Not two," for in "not two" all things are united and there’s nothing not included. The wise ones of the ten directions have entered this great understanding, an understanding which neither hastens nor tames. In ten thousand years, a single thought, not to be found within "existence and nonexistence," but meeting the eye in the ten directions. The smallest is no different from the largest; eliminating boundaries, the largest is the same as the smallest. Not seeing divisions, existence is but emptiness; emptiness, existence.
That which is not of this principle must not be preserved. The one is everything; everything, the one. If your understanding is this, what is left to accomplish? Faith and mind are undivided, nonduality is both faith and mind. The way of words is cut off, leaving no past, no future, no present.
posted by Dog Hair | 2:22 PM
