Things are objects because there is a subject or mind;
and the mind is a subject because there are objects.
Understand the relativity of these two
and the basic reality: the unity of emptiness.
In this Emptiness the two are indistinguishable
and each contains in itself the whole world.
If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine
you will not be tempted to prejudice and opinion.

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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