Seng Ts'an
Live in bondage to your thoughts,
and you will be confused, unclear.
This heavy burden weighs you down.
When you are no longer asleep,
All dreams will vanish by themselves.
When you assert that things are real
You miss their true reality.
But to assert that things are void
Also misses their reality.
The more you talk and think on this
The further from the truth you'll be.
Do not go searching for truth,
Just let those fond opinions go.
Just let go of clinging mind,
And all things are just as they are.
With single mind one with the Way,
All ego-centered strivings cease;
Doubts and confusion disappear,
And so true faith pervades our life.
If mind does not discriminate,
All things are as they are, as One.
Not only here, not only there,
Truth is right before your very eyes.
The wise in all times and places
Awaken to this primal truth.
The Way is perfect like vast space,
Where there's no lack and no excess.
Our choice to choose and reject
Prevents our seeing this simple truth.
When preferences are cast aside
The Way stands clear and undisguised.
To seek Great Mind with thinking mind
Is certainly a grave mistake.
From small mind come rest and unrest,
but mind awakened transcends both.
All is self-revealing, void and clear,
Without exerting power of mind.
The Great Way is not difficult
For those who do not pick and choose.
If you would walk the highest Way,
Do not reject the sense domain.
For as it is it is whole and complete,
This sense world is enlightenment.
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 not, what is not is...
One thing is all, all things are one...
Know this and all is whole and complete.
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