Freed from bondage

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For the Realized mind at one with the Way

all self-centered striving ceases.

Doubts and irresolutions vanish

and the Truth is confirmed in you.

With a single stroke you are freed from bondage;

nothing clings to you and you hold to nothing.

All is empty, clear, self-illuminating,

with no need to exert the mind.

Here, thinking, feeling, understanding, and imagination

are of no value.

In this world " as it really is "

there is neither self nor other-than-self.

 

 

- Seng-ts'an, Third Zen Patriarch

 

 

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Hsin Hsin Ming

Translated by Richard B. Clarke