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All things are free-flowing,
untrammeled.
What bondage is there,
what entanglement?
You create your own difficulty and ease therein.
The mind source pervades the ten directions
with one continuity;
those of the most excellent faculties understand naturally.

- Tzu-hu (800-880)

Do not look for innate knowledge
In the mind that has already gone astray.

- Qian Dehong (1495-1574)

Love and tolerance of others is our code.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84

I have found that I have to forgive others in all situations to maintain any real spiritual progress. The vital importance of forgiving may not be obvious to me at first sight, but my studies tell me that every great spiritual teacher has insisted strongly upon it.

I must forgive injuries, not just in words, or as a matter of form, but in my heart. I do this not for the other persons’ sake, but for my own sake. Resentment, anger, or a desire to see someone punished, are things that rot my soul. Such things fasten my troubles to me with chains. They tie me to other problems that have nothing to do with my original problem.

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NEW DAY
God bless everyone
no exceptions

The learning of the sages
For a thousand years
Is just recognized in a moment
Of spiritual illumination.

- Wang Ji (1498-1583)

A mirror reflects a multitude of images without their confusing its brilliance;
birds fly through the air without mixing up the color of the sky.

- Hsuan-sha

This mind, since time without beginning,
Is originally motionless.
Though we may speak a thousand
Thoughts, it is just that the workings
Of natural potential are spontaneously so.
Though we may feel myriad influences
And make myriad responses, from the
Beginning the fundamental essence
Has always been still.

- Qian Dehong (1495-1574)

@rookie54 said
Love and tolerance of others is our code.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84

I have found that I have to forgive others in all situations to maintain any real spiritual progress. The vital importance of forgiving may not be obvious to me at first sight, but my studies tell me that every great spiritual teacher has insisted strongly upon it.

I must forgive injuries, not just ...[text shortened]... nothing to do with my original problem.

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NEW DAY
God bless everyone
no exceptions

@rookie54 said
Love and tolerance of others is our code.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 84

I have found that I have to forgive others in all situations to maintain any real spiritual progress. The vital importance of forgiving may not be obvious to me at first sight, but my studies tell me that every great spiritual teacher has insisted strongly upon it.

I must forgive injuries, not just ...[text shortened]... nothing to do with my original problem.

------------
NEW DAY
God bless everyone
no exceptions

@rookie54 said
This mind, since time without beginning,
Is originally motionless.
Though we may speak a thousand
Thoughts, it is just that the workings
Of natural potential are spontaneously so.
Though we may feel myriad influences
And make myriad responses, from the
Beginning the fundamental essence
Has always been still.

- Qian Dehong (1495-1574)

What is this mind?
Who is hearing these sounds?
Do not mistake any state for
Self-realization, but continue
To ask yourself even more
Intensely,
What is it that hears?

- Bassui (1338-1500)

When the mind is as is,
Circumstances also are as is.
There’s no real
And also no unreal.
Giving no heed to existence
And holding not
To nonexistence,
You’re neither saint nor sage,
Just an ordinary person
Who has settled their affairs.
Easy, so easy.

- Layman P’ang (740-808)

The past is already past.
Don’t try to regain it.
The present does not stay.
Don’t try to touch it
From moment to moment.
The future is not come;
Don’t think about it
Beforehand.
Whatever comes to the eye,
Leave it be.
There are no commandments
To be kept,
There’s no filth to be cleansed.
With empty mind really
Penetrated, the dharmas
Have no life.
When you can be like this
You’ve completed
The ultimate attainment.

- Layman P’ang

...essence is identical to function. Since blankness is not present in calmness, and distracted thoughts are not engaged during alertness, how will any deluded thoughts be able to arise?

- Chinul (1205)

A crystal spring reflecting the bright moon,
An ancient gully;
Cranes not yet returned.
A sliver of rock beneath the towering pines,
A mountain monk who kneels there, washing clothes.

- Kodojin (1865-1944)

The Buddha is just an old monk
In the Western Heaven
Is that something to look so hard for
Day and night?
It's you who are the Buddha,
But you just won't see.
Why go riding on an ox
To search for an ox?

- Wu-hsueh Tsu-yuan (1226-1286)