Clinging cannot be limited;
even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment
is to go astray.
Just let things be in their own way
and there will be neither coming nor going.
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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