Verses on Faith Mind (Hsin Hsin Ming) by Sengstan (Third Zen Patriarch)

Friday, 27 July 2007

Verse 10


If the eye never sleeps,

all dreams will naturally cease.

If the mind makes no discriminations,

the ten thousand things

are as they are, of single essence.

To understand the mystery of this one-essence

is to be released from all entanglements.

When all things are seen equally

the timeless Self-essence is reached.

No comparisons or analogies are possible

in the causeless, relationless state.


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