The Great Way is embracing and spacious

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The Great Way is embracing and spacious -

to live in it is neither easy nor difficult.

Those who rely on limited views are fearful and irresolute:

The faster they hurry, the slower they go.

To have a narrow mind,

and to be attached to getting enlightenment

is to lose one's center and go astray.

When one is free from attachment,

all things are as they are,

and there is neither coming nor going.

 

- Seng-ts'an, Third Zen Patriarch

 

 

 

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Hsin Hsin Ming

Translated by Richard B. Clarke