“A person of the Way fundamentally does not dwell anywhere... The moon sets and the water is cool. Each bit of autumn contains vast interpenetration without bounds.”
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20. Unconventional Mind
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“a radical, refined nondualism that does not grasp at any of the highly subtle distinctions to which our familiar mental workings are prone and which estranges us from our experience.”
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68. Joining Heaven & Earth
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“Cast off completely your head and skin... the original light flashes through confusion... your footsteps are not visible on the road.”
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“Clear out obsessive thinking and distraction, see the vast radiance without barriers, the genuine awakened field, and immediately respond to the ten thousand changes”
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“Don’t dwell in appearances, be bounded by or settle into any place but rest from the remnants of conditioning and reach the limit in all directions illuminating fully what is before you as awakening blossoms.”
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“Face whatever appears before you… enter the current of the world and join with the delusion.”
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“False thinking stops and stillness necessarily arises, stillness arises and wisdom appears, wisdom arises and stillness necessarily disappears”
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“Follow the buddha’s teachings, the dharma’s flowering, and restore reality by cutting off all duality.”
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“illuminate all conditions... clear and desireless, the wind in the pines and the moon in the water are content in their elements.”
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“Like the moon overwhelming the darkness, from the beginning just beam through all gloom.”
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25. The Mother of All Things
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“Moving straight ahead, totally let go... respond with brilliant light to such unfathomable depths as the waters of autumn or the moon stamped in the sky.”
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“Naturally the mind flowers, radiance shines out, you travel without hindrance, free at last.”
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“Operating without self they cannot be buried in the cocoon of past conditioning.”
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41. Distilled Life
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“Practice true reality not possessed by emotions but bright and penetrating like moonlight glittering down on mountain streams.”
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“Purify, cure, grind down, or brush away all the tendencies you have fabricated into habits... reside in the field of boundless emptiness”
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“Realize that not a single thing exists and respond unencumbered to each spec of dust without becoming its partner.”
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21. Following Empty Heart
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“Self and other are not separated by their names.”
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“Sounds and colors crowd in together, carefree and transcendent, directly leaping into each other.”
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“Stay with this just as this, stay with that just as that… freely let go not following conditions, not falling into classifications.”
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“ten thousand sages are no more than footprints on the trail”
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38. Fruit Over Flowers
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“The moon accompanies the current… understanding and the the changing world fulfill each other… go forward and see for yourself.”
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“The primal mind transcends conditioning... How can you possibly attain anything outside yourself?”
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“The primal wisdom, silent but also glorious, responds to conditions.”
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“The reeds blossom under the bright moon; the jade thread fits into the golden needle; the opportunity arises to turn around, enter the world, and respond to conditions.”
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“The water is clear right down to the bottom, fish lazily swim on. The sky is vast without end, birds fly far into the distance.”
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“Thoroughly investigate your roots back to their ultimate source”
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“When the bottom is filled with rubbish, just walk through the sludge.”
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“When you forget about merit, your position is fulfilled… transmitting is merit but having transmitted, is not your own merit.”
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“Wisdom illuminates the darkness without confusion... Follow the current and paddle along, naturally unobstructed”
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“Without leaving a trace, let mind and dharma become one and wander into the circle of wonder.”
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