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The Great Way is not difficult

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for those who have no preferences.

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When Love and Hate are both absent,

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everything becomes clear and undisguised.

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Make the smallest distinction however

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and heaven and Earth 
are set infinitely apart.

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If you wish to see the truth

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then hold no
opinions for or against anything.

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To set what you like against 
what you dislike

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is the disease of the Mind.

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When the deep meaning of things

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is not understood

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the mind's essential peace is disturbed

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to no avail.

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The Way is perfect,

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like vast space,

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where nothing is lacking 
and nothing is in excess.

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Indeed, it is due to our choosing,

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to accept or reject, that we do not 
see the true nature of things.

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Live neither in the entanglements
of outer things,

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nor in inner feelings of emptiness.

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Be serene in the Oneness of things

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and such erroneous views 
will disappear by themselves.

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When you try to stop activity 
to achieve passivity

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your very effort fills you with activity.

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As long as you remain in 
one extreme or the other

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you will never know Oneness.

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Those who do not live in the single way

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fail in both activity and passivity, 
assertion and denial.

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To deny the reality of things
Is to miss their reality.

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To assert the emptiness of things 
is to miss their reality.

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The more you talk

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and think about it, the further astray

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you wander from the truth.

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Stop talking and thinking

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and there is nothing
you will not be able to know.

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To return to the root

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is to find the meaning,

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but to pursue appearances 
is to miss the source.

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At the moment of inner enlightenment

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there is a going beyond 
appearance and emptiness.

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The changes that appear to occur

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in the empty world we call real

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only because of our ignorance.

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Do not search for the truth.

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Only cease to cherish opinions.

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Do not remain in the dualistic state.

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Avoid such pursuits carefully.

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If there is even a trace of this and that,

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of right and wrong,

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the Mind Essence
will be lost in confusion.

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Although all dualities come from the One,

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do not be attached even to this One.

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When the Mind exists 
undisturbed in the Way

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nothing in the world can offend,

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and when a thing can no longer offend

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it ceases to exist in the old way.

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When no discriminating thoughts arise

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the old mind ceases to exist.

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When thought objects vanish

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the thinking subject vanishes.

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As when the Mind vanishes, objects vanish.

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Things are objects because of the subject.

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The mind is such because of things.

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Understand the relativity of these two

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and the basic reality;

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the unity of emptiness.

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In this emptiness

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the two are indistinguishable

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and each contains in itself 
the whole world.

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If you do not discriminate between course
and fine

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you will not be tempted to prejudice

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and opinion.

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To live in the Great Way

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is neither easy nor difficult,

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but those with limited views

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are fearful and irresolute.

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The faster they hurry

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the slower they go

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and clinging cannot be limited.

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Even to be attached to the 
idea of Enlightenment

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is to go astray.

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Just let things be in their own way

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and there will be neither 
coming nor going.

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Obey the nature of things

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and you will walk freely and undisturbed.

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When thought is in bondage

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the truth is hidden, 
for everything is

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murky and unclear,

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and the burdensome practice of judging

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brings annoyance and weariness.

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What benefit can be derived

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from distinctions and separations?

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If you wish to move in the One Way

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do not dislike even the 
world of senses and ideas.

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Indeed to accept them fully

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is identical with true enlightenment.

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The wise person strives toward no goals

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but the foolish person fetters themselves.

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There is one Dharma not many.

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Distinctions arise from the 
clinging

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needs of the ignorant.

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To seek mind with the discriminating mind

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is the greatest of all mistakes.

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Rest and unrest derive from illusion.

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With Enlightenment

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there is no liking and disliking.

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All dualities come from 
ignorant inference.

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They are like dreams 
or flowers in air;

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foolish
to try to grasp them.

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Gain and loss,

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right and wrong;

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such thoughts must finally 
be abolished at once.

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If the eye never sleeps

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all dreams will naturally cease.

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If the Mind makes no discriminations

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the ten thousand things are as they are;

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of single essence.

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To understand the mystery

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of this One Essence is to be released

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from all entanglements.

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When all things are seen equally

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the timeless self essence is reached.

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No comparisons or analogies 
are possible in this

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causeless, relationless state.

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Consider movement

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stationary and the stationary in motion

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and both movement and rest disappear.

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When such dualities cease to exist,

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Oneness itself cannot exist.

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To this ultimate finality

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no law or description applies.

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For the unified mind, 
in accord with the Way,

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all self-centered striving ceases.

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Doubts and irresolutions vanish

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and life in true
faith is possible.

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With a single stroke we 
are freed from bondage.

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Nothing clings to us 
and we hold to nothing.

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All is empty,

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clear, self-illuminating, with
no exertion of the mind's power.

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Here thought, feeling, knowledge 
and imagination are of no of no value.

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In this world of suchness

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there is neither self 
nor other than self.

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To come directly into harmony 
with this reality

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just simply say when doubt arises:
"not two".

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In this "not two" nothing is separate,

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nothing is excluded.

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No matter when or where

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Enlightenment means entering this truth.

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And this truth is beyond extension 
or diminution in time or space.

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In it a single thought 
is ten thousand years.

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Emptiness here,

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emptiness there.

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But the infinite universe stands
always before your eyes.

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Infinitely large and infinitely small-

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no difference.

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For definitions have vanished 
and no boundaries are seen.

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So too with being and non-being.

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Don't waste time in doubts and arguments 
that have nothing to do with this.

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One thing, all things,

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move among and intermingle

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without distinction.

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To live in this realization is to be 
without anxiety about non-perfection.

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To live in this faith is the 
road to non-duality

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because the non-dual is one 
with the trusting mind.

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Words!

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The way is beyond language,

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for in it there is no yesterday,

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no tomorrow,

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no today.