The Gatha
Abandon all trouble in the world --
This is the most extraordinary act.
As in an opera, grasp the rope
Only to swing on, progressing further.
If you don't feel penetrating cold
To the bone at least once,
How can you ever come to smell
The warm fragrance of plum flowers?
Question: "What is the Buddha?" The master responded: "The Mind is Buddha; no-mind is the Tao. Just be without mind and stop your thinking. Just be of that Mind where there is no existence or non-existence, no long and no short, no self and no others, neither negative nor positive, and neither within nor without. Just know, above all, that non-differentiating Mind is the Buddha, that Buddha is the Mind and that the Mind is voidness.
Therefore, the real Dharmakaya is just voidness. It is not necessary to seek anything whatsoever, and all who do continue to seek for something only prolong their suffering in samsara.
[Wan-Ling]
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