Trust in Mind Xing Xing Ming by Tseng Tsang The Third Patriarch of Zen Translation by Stanley Lombardo The great way is not difficult.
Just don't pick and choose.
Cut off all likes or dislikes,
And it is clear,
Like space.
The slightest distinction splits heaven from earth.
To see the truth,
Don't be for or against.
Likes and dislikes are the mind's disease.
If you miss the deep meaning,
It is useless to still your thoughts.
It is clear as vast space.
Nothing missing,
Nothing extra.
If you choose or reject,
You cannot see things as they are.
Outside,
Don't get tangled in things.
Inside,
Don't get lost in emptiness.
Be still and become one,
And confusion stops by itself.
Stop moving to become still,
And the stillness will move.
If you hold on to opposites,
You cannot understand one.
If you don't understand one,
This and that cannot function.
Denied,
The world goes on.
Pursued,
Emptiness is lost.
The more you think and talk,
The more you lose the way.
Cut off all thinking and pass freely anywhere.
Return to the root and understand.
Chase outcomes and lose the source.
One clear moment within illumines the emptiness before you.
Emptiness,
Changing into things,
Is only our deluded view.
Do not seek the truth,
Only put down your opinions.
Do not live in the world of opposites.
Be careful,
Never go that way.
If you make right and wrong,
Your mind is lost in confusion.
Two comes from one,
But do not cling even to this one.
If one mind does not arise,
The ten thousand things are without fault.
No fault,
No ten thousand things,
No arising,
No mind.
No world,
No one to see it.
No one to see it,
No world.
This comes when that goes,
That arises when this sinks.
Understand both as originally one emptiness.
In emptiness the two are the same,
And each holds the ten thousand things.
If you do not see great or small,
How can you prefer one to the other?
The way is calm and wide,
Not easy,
Not difficult.
But small minds get lost.
Hurrying,
They fall behind.
Clinging,
They go too far,
Sure to take the wrong turn.
Just let it be.
In the end,
Nothing goes,
Nothing stays.
Follow nature and find the way.
Free,
Easy and undisturbed.
Tied to your thoughts,
You lose the truth,
Become heavy,
Dull and unwell.
Not well,
The mind is troubled,
So why hold or reject anything?
To ride the one vehicle,
Do not despise the six senses.
Not despising the six senses is already enlightenment.
The wise do not act,
Fools bind themselves.
In true Dharma there is no this or that,
So why blindly chase desires?
Using mind to grasp mind is the original mistake.
Peaceful and troubled are only ideas.
Enlightenment has no likes or dislikes.
All opposites arise from faulty views.
Illusions,
Flowers in the air,
Why try to grasp them?
Win,
Lose,
Right,
Wrong,
Put it all down.
If the eye never sleeps,
Dreams disappear by themselves.
If the mind makes no distinctions,
The ten thousand things are one essence.
See the deep and dark essence and be free from entanglements.
See the ten thousand things as equal and return to true nature.
Without any distinctions there can be no comparisons.
Stop,
There is no motion.
Move,
And there is no stillness.
Without motion or stillness how can a single thing exist?
In true nature there are no goals or plans.
In the mind before thinking no effort is made.
Doubts and worries disappear and faith is restored.
Nothing is left behind,
Nothing stays with us.
Bright and empty,
The mind shines by itself.
In the mind without effort thinking cannot take root.
In the true Dharma world there is no self or other.
To abide in this world just say,
Not to.
Not to includes everything,
Excludes nothing.
Enlightened beings everywhere all return to the Source.
Beyond time and space one moment is ten thousand years.
Nothing here,
Nothing there but the universe is always before you.
Infinitely small is infinitely large.
No boundaries,
No differences.
Infinitely large is infinitely small.
Measurements do not matter here.
What is is what is not.
What is not is what is.
Where it is not like this do not bother staying.
One is all,
All is one.
When you see things like this you are already complete.
Trust and mind are not two.
Not two is trust in mind.
The way is beyond all words.
Not past,
Not future,
Not present.
