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Have Faith in Your Mind
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It
is not hard to realise your Mind
Which should not be an object of your choice.
Throw
like and dislike away
And
you'll be clear about it.
The
slightest deviation from it means
A gulf as deep as that 'twixt heaven and earth.
If
you want it to manifest
Be
not for or aginst a thing,
For
that is contentious,
A disease of the mind.
If
its profoundness you ignore
You
can never practise stillness.
Perfect
like the great void it lacks
Nothing
and has naught in excess.
If
you discriminate
You
will miss its suchness.
To
external causes cling not, stay
Not
in the void (that is relative).
If
you can be impartial
Differentiation
ceases.
To
stop disturbance leads to stillness
Which, if clung to, stirs the mind. But if
To
opposites you cling
How
can you know the One?
If
you do not recognise One Mind
Two
opposites will lead you nowhere.
To
avoid what “is” means to cling to what “is not”,
To
cling to what “is not” means to revive what “is”.
The
more you talk and think,
The
further are you from it.
If
you can halt all speech and thought
You
will find it everywhere.
If
you think success means to return all things to their
source,
You
will differ (from our Sect) by clinging to its function.
The
moment that you look within
You
surpass your contemplation
Of
the void which is always changing
Due to your discriminating views.
Do
not seek the real
But your
false views lay down.
Avoid
the real and the false
And never
search for either.
Once
you start to choose between what's right and wrong,
You
will become confused and you will lose your Mind.
All
pairs from the One Mind spring
Which never should be clung to.
If
the One Mind does not stir
Then
all things will be harmless.
Things that are harmless cease to be,
Mind
that stirs not does not exist.
Subjects
disengaged from objects vanish,
Objects
like their creator disappear.
Objects are caused by subjects
On
whose existence they depend.
If
you would understand dualities
Know
that they spring from Voidness absolute.
The
absolute and all dualities
Are
one, from it all things originate.
When
you cease choosing between the coarse
And fine
all prejudices die.
Since
the Great Mind embraces all,
To realise it is not difficult
Or easy.
In their distrust the ignorant
Wavers between eagerness and hesitation.
If
you grasp at it, you will be in the wrong
Falling into the way of heretics.
If
you lay it down
It
stays not nor goes.
With
the Tao unite your nature
And you wll be free from troubles.
Clinging
from the real strays
And to
confusion leads.
Discrimination
is useless
So
weary not your mind.
If
you want to know the One
Reject
not sense data.
If
they're not rejected
They
are one with Bodhi.
The
wise man is non-active,
The
ignorant bind themselves.
All
things are the same at heart
But clinging's from delusion.
If
mind is used to seek itself,
Is
this not a grave mistake?
Delusion
brings stillness and disturbances;
Bodhi is
far beyond all good and evil.
All
the pairs of opposites
From
discrimination come.
Dreams,
illusions and flowers in
The sky are not worth attachment.
Gain
and loss, and right and wrong
Should be laid down now at once.
If
your eyes close not in sleep
All
your dreams will disappear.
If
you do not discriminate,
Then
all things will be as they are.
Profound
is this state of suchness,
Lofty and beyond illusions.
If
things are not thought different,
To
their nature they will return.
When
they disappear,
Mind's
without compare.
When
it stops moving disturbance is no more;
When
all motion ceases, stillness also stops.
When
opposites disappear,
Where
then can the One Mind be?
When
for the Ultimate you search,
You
find it has no pattern.
In
this impartial mind
Duality
has vanished.
When
distrust ceases,
Your
faith will be true.
When
all is thrown away
There's
nothing to remember.
The
Mind that now is pure
Radiates
and is not tired.
Since
it is beyond discriminative thinking
It cannot be fathomed by that which knows and feels.
Such
is the state absolutely
Free
from the self and others.
If
you would be one with it
All
duality avoid.
In
all places the non-dual is
The
same and there is naught outside it.
Sages
everywhere
To
this sect belong,
Which is beyond time, long or short,
For a thought lasts ten thousand years.
It
neither “is” nor “is not”
For
everywhere is here
The
smallest equals the largest
For
it is not confined by space.
The
largest equals the smallest
For it is no within, without.
“Is”
and “is not” are the same,
For
what “is not” equals “is”.
If
you cannot so awaken,
Why
worry if you do not win it?
Just
believe that your Mind is non-dual
For
your Faith in it is not divided.
In it there's no room for word and speech;
It
has no present, past or future.
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