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

Friday, 27 July 2007

Verse 12

For the unified mind in accord with the Way

all self-centered striving ceases.

Doubts and irresolutions vanish

and life in true faith is possible.

With a single stroke we are freed from bondage;

nothing clings to us and we hold to nothing.

All is empty, clear, self-illuminating,

with no exertion of the mind's power.

Here thought, feeling, knowledge, and imagination

are of no value.

In this world of Suchness

there is neither self nor other-than-self.

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