Faith in mind(2)

Written by Seng Ts’n, the zen’s class Third Patriarch  

With narrow views and doubts,

Hast will slow you down.

Attach will slow you lose the measure;

The mind will enter a deviant path.

Let it go and be spontaneous,

Experience no going or staying.

Accord with your nature, unite with the way,

Wander at ease, without vexation.

Bound by thoughts you depart from the real;

And sinking into a stupor is as bad.

It is not good to weary of spirit.  

Why alternate between aversion and affection?

If you wish to enter one vehicle,

Do not be repelled by the sense realm.

With no aversion to the sense realm

You become one with true enlightenment.

The wise have no motives;

Fools put themselves in bondage.

One dharma is not different from another.

The deluded mind clings to whatever it desires.  

Using mind to catch something is a great mistake.

Fool does everything wrong,

The duality comes from false discriminations.

A dream, an illusion, or a flower in the sky,

How could it be worth to grasp?

Gain and loss, right and wrong, discard them away.

If the eyes do not close in sleep,

If the mind does not discriminate,

All dharmas are of one suchness.

The essence of one suchness is profound;

Be nature and be forgotten all conditioned things,

Contemplate all dharmas as equal,

You will return to things as they are.

When the subject disappears.

Stop activity and there is no activity,

Activity are keeping, there is no rest.

Since two cannot be established,

How can there be one?

In the very ultimate,

Rules and standards do not exist.

Develop a mind of equanimity,

And all deeds are put to rest.

Anxious and doubts are completely cleared.

Right faith is made upright.

Nothing lingers behind,

Nothing can be remembered.

Clear or not clear, Be functioning naturally.

You are all transparent.

It is not a place of thinking,

Difficult for reason and emotion is fathom.

In the Dharma realm of true suchness,

There is no other, no self,

To accord with it is vitally important;

In “Not-two” all things are in unity;

Nothing is excluded.

The wise come from directions,

All follow this principle.

This principle is neither hurried nor slow,

One thought for thousands years.

Abiding nowhere yet everywhere,

Directions are all right face to you.

The smallest is the same as the largest.

In the realm without delusion,

The largest is the some as the smallest;

No boundaries are visible,

Existence is emptiness.

Emptiness is existence too.

If it is not like this, do not follow it.

One is everything; everything is one.

If you can do that,

Why worry about do not accomplished.

Faith and mind are not two.

Non-duality is faith in mind.

The path of words is cut off;