You do not have to abandon worldly activities in order to attain effortless unconcern. You should know that worldly activities and effortless unconcern are not two different things, but if you keep thinking about rejection and grasping, you make them two.

Hui Neng

from the book Classics of Buddhism and Zen, Volume 1: The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary

translated by Thomas Cleary


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