Those who do not live in the single Way
fail in both activity and passivity,
assertion and denial.
To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality;
to assert the emptiness of things
is to miss their reality.
Sengcan
from the book Hsin-Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind
translated by Richard B. Clarke
source: http://terebess.hu/english/hsin.html#3
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- Obey the nature of things
- The greatest of all mistakes
- Perfect like vast space
- Trying to stop activity
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- Do not search for the truth
- Clinging cannot be limited
- Like dreams of flowers in air
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- No preferences
- Freed from bondage
- Of single essence
- Identical With True Enlightenment
- Even a trace of this and that
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