WEBVTT 00:00:16.970 --> 00:00:19.566 The Great Way is not difficult 00:00:19.566 --> 00:00:22.686 for those who have no preferences. 00:00:25.750 --> 00:00:29.550 When Love and Hate are both absent, 00:00:30.045 --> 00:00:34.435 everything becomes clear and undisguised. 00:00:36.800 --> 00:00:40.315 Make the smallest distinction however 00:00:41.090 --> 00:00:46.830 and heaven and Earth are set infinitely apart. 00:00:58.850 --> 00:01:02.200 If you wish to see the truth 00:01:02.413 --> 00:01:08.873 then hold no opinions for or against anything. 00:01:10.970 --> 00:01:14.530 To set what you like against what you dislike 00:01:14.655 --> 00:01:18.665 is the disease of the Mind. 00:01:27.999 --> 00:01:30.140 When the deep meaning of things 00:01:30.140 --> 00:01:32.790 is not understood 00:01:33.100 --> 00:01:36.580 the mind's essential peace is disturbed 00:01:36.580 --> 00:01:38.390 to no avail. 00:01:42.850 --> 00:01:46.600 The Way is perfect, 00:01:47.555 --> 00:01:50.955 like vast space, 00:01:52.350 --> 00:01:57.260 where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess. 00:02:13.980 --> 00:02:17.840 Indeed it is due to our choosing, 00:02:18.470 --> 00:02:24.595 to accept or reject, that we do not see the true nature of things. 00:02:28.620 --> 00:02:33.540 Live neither in the entanglements of outer things 00:02:33.689 --> 00:02:38.949 nor in inner feelings of emptiness. 00:02:43.169 --> 00:02:46.949 Be serene in the Oneness of things 00:02:47.024 --> 00:02:52.704 and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves. 00:02:57.459 --> 00:03:02.349 When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity 00:03:02.429 --> 00:03:09.081 your very effort fills you with activity. 00:03:19.340 --> 00:03:23.634 As long as you remain in one extreme or the other 00:03:23.764 --> 00:03:28.595 you will never know Oneness. 00:03:33.550 --> 00:03:37.780 Those who do not live in the single way 00:03:38.375 --> 00:03:47.245 fail in both activity and passivity, assertion and denial. 00:03:55.180 --> 00:04:00.720 To deny the reality of things Is to miss their reality. 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:09.090 To assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality. 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:16.350 The more you talk 00:04:16.350 --> 00:04:20.161 and think about it, the further astray 00:04:20.161 --> 00:04:23.090 you wander from the truth. 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:31.260 Stop talking and thinking 00:04:32.485 --> 00:04:36.865 and there is nothing you will not be able to know. 00:04:39.191 --> 00:04:40.781 To return to the root 00:04:40.889 --> 00:04:43.350 is to find the meaning, 00:04:43.515 --> 00:04:50.677 but to pursue appearances is to miss the source. 00:04:55.420 --> 00:04:58.430 At the moment of inner enlightenment 00:04:59.580 --> 00:05:04.530 there is a going beyond appearance and emptiness. 00:05:09.270 --> 00:05:12.400 The changes that appear to occur 00:05:12.640 --> 00:05:15.870 in the empty world we call real 00:05:15.925 --> 00:05:20.095 only because of our ignorance. 00:05:29.980 --> 00:05:30.980 Do not search for the truth. 00:05:34.110 --> 00:05:35.110 Only cease to cherish opinions. 00:05:40.230 --> 00:05:41.230 Do not remain in the dualistic state. Avoid such pursuits carefully. 00:05:45.580 --> 00:05:46.580 If there is even a trace of this and that, of right and wrong, the Mind Essence will be 00:06:00.730 --> 00:06:01.730 lost in confusion. 00:06:03.850 --> 00:06:04.850 Although all dualities come from the One, do not be attached even to this One. 00:06:39.190 --> 00:06:40.190 When the Mind exists undisturbed in the Way nothing in the world can offend, and when a 00:06:49.020 --> 00:06:50.020 thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. 00:07:11.470 --> 00:07:12.470 When no discriminating thoughts arise the old mind ceases to exist. 00:07:24.220 --> 00:07:25.220 When thought objects vanish 00:07:25.830 --> 00:07:26.830 the thinking subject vanishes. As when the Mind vanishes, objects vanish. 00:07:50.039 --> 00:07:51.039 Things are objects because of the subject. The mind is such because of things. 00:08:00.990 --> 00:08:01.990 Understand the relativity of these two and the basic reality; the unity of emptiness. 00:08:12.919 --> 00:08:13.919 In this emptiness the two are indistinguishable and each contains in itself the whole world. 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:39.240 If you do not discriminate between course and fine you will not be tempted to 00:08:45.410 --> 00:08:46.410 prejudice and opinion. 00:08:50.160 --> 00:08:51.160 To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are 00:08:58.180 --> 00:08:59.180 fearful and irresolute. 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:01.560 The faster they hurry the slower they go and clinging cannot be limited. 00:09:33.660 --> 00:09:34.660 Even to be attached to the idea of Enlightenment is to go astray. 00:09:41.970 --> 00:09:42.970 Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. 00:09:51.230 --> 00:09:52.230 Obey the nature of things and you will walk freely and undisturbed. 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:09.800 When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the 00:10:18.020 --> 00:10:19.020 burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. 00:10:33.830 --> 00:10:34.830 What benefit 00:10:40.450 --> 00:10:41.450 can be derived from distinctions and separations. 00:10:47.199 --> 00:10:48.199 If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas. 00:10:57.380 --> 00:10:58.380 Indeed to accept them fully is identical with true enlightenment. 00:11:10.899 --> 00:11:11.899 The wise person strives toward no goals but the foolish person fetters themselves. 00:11:25.260 --> 00:11:26.260 There is one Dharma not many. 00:11:30.950 --> 00:11:31.950 Distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant. 00:11:46.100 --> 00:11:47.100 To seek mind with the discriminating mind is the greatest of all mistakes. 00:11:55.220 --> 00:11:56.220 Rest and unrest derive from illusion. With Enlightenment there is no liking and disliking. 00:12:05.880 --> 00:12:06.880 All dualities come from ignorant inference. 00:12:11.430 --> 00:12:12.430 They are like dreams or flowers in air; foolish to try to grasp them. 00:12:23.550 --> 00:12:24.550 Gain and loss, right and wrong; such thoughts must finally be abolished at once. 00:12:43.850 --> 00:12:44.850 If the eye never sleeps all dreams will naturally cease. If the Mind makes no discriminations 00:12:55.300 --> 00:12:56.300 the ten thousand things are as they are; of single essence. 00:13:05.310 --> 00:13:06.310 To understand the mystery of this One Essence is to be released from all entanglements. 00:13:24.690 --> 00:13:25.690 When all things are seen equally the timeless self essence is reached. 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:32.120 No comparisons or analogies are possible in this causeless, relationless state. 00:13:49.270 --> 00:13:50.270 Consider movement stationary and the stationary in motion and both movement and rest disappear. 00:14:00.170 --> 00:14:01.170 When such dualities cease to exist, Oneness itself cannot exist. 00:14:11.980 --> 00:14:12.980 To this ultimate finality no law or description applies. 00:14:21.170 --> 00:14:22.170 For the unified mind, in accord with the Way, all self-centered striving ceases. 00:14:29.860 --> 00:14:30.860 Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. 00:14:46.660 --> 00:14:47.660 With a single stroke we are freed from bondage. Nothing clings to us and we hold to nothing. 00:15:04.829 --> 00:15:05.829 All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power. 00:15:16.170 --> 00:15:17.170 Here thought, feeling, knowledge and imagination are of no of no value. 00:15:25.980 --> 00:15:26.980 In this world of suchness there is neither self nor other than self. 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:45.600 To come directly into harmony with this reality just simply say when doubt arises: "not two". 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:57.240 In this "not two" nothing is separate and nothing is excluded. 00:16:06.180 --> 00:16:07.180 No matter when or where Enlightenment means entering this truth. 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:17.440 And this truth is beyond extension or diminution in time or space. 00:16:23.529 --> 00:16:24.529 In it a single thought is ten thousand years. 00:16:44.260 --> 00:16:45.260 Emptiness here, emptiness there. 00:16:45.260 --> 00:16:46.260 But the infinite universe stands always before your eyes. 00:17:05.699 --> 00:17:06.699 Infinitely large and infinitely small- no difference. For definitions have vanished and no boundaries 00:17:21.050 --> 00:17:22.050 are seen. 00:17:24.390 --> 00:17:25.390 So too with being and non-being. Don't waste time in doubts and arguments that have nothing 00:17:33.510 --> 00:17:34.510 to do with this. 00:17:37.299 --> 00:17:38.299 One thing, all things, move among and intermingle without distinction. 00:17:56.910 --> 00:17:57.910 To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. 00:18:06.330 --> 00:18:07.330 To live in this faith is the road to non-duality because the non-dual is one with the 00:18:14.970 --> 00:18:15.970 trusting mind. 00:18:23.850 --> 00:18:24.850 Words! The way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday, no tomorrow, 00:18:39.130 --> 00:18:40.130 no today.