The words of old Tcheng

[Guest guest]

Baldheads the thought of the primordial spirit is only the reflection of it

in the individual mind in the same way that the image of the moon seen in

the water of a pond is only reflection of the moon. The primordial spirit

remains present, unchanged and unaffected by the tumult of your thoughts and

actions in the same way that the moon remains unchanged and unaffected

whether the water in the pond is clear or muddy, calm or perturbed or

whether the pond is full or empty. It is only the image of the moon that is

changed or absent because of that. There is no moon in the pond.

 

Baldheads do understand that in all your inventive ways to attain purity,

detachment and freedom, in your attempts to stop your thoughts every three

hours, and many other practices which you indulge in with a view to catch

hold of the primordial spirit, you are caught by the mind like a fish in a

hoop net. You act in the same foolish manner when, in order to see the moon

directly, you purify the water of the pond, take out the plants that are

covering it and set up a bamboo fence so that the wind can neither stir the

surface nor empty the pond.

 

Baldheads do understand that you only allow yourselves to be bound by your

pitiful actions.

 

Jai Sri Ramana