The wise man strives to no goals
but the foolish man fetters himself.
There is one Dharma, not many;
distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant.
To seek Mind with discriminating mind
is the greatest of all mistakes.
Sengcan
from the book
translated by Richard B. Clarke
source: http://terebess.hu/english/hsin.html#3
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- Clinging cannot be limited
- Like dreams of flowers in air
- Definitions have vanished
- No preferences
- Freed from bondage
- Of single essence
- Identical With True Enlightenment
- Even a trace of this and that
- Undisturbed mind
- Life in true faith
- Always before your eyes
- The unity of emptiness
- Assertion and denial
- The mind’s essential peace
- The road to nonduality
- Obey the nature of things
- Perfect like vast space
- Trying to stop activity