Venerable ones, don’t use your minds wrongly! You, wandering round along with your burden simply as the good ocean retains transferring corpses round, impede your minds by elevating obstacles. When there isn’t a cloud throughout the solar, the serene heaven is radiant with gentle. With no mote within the eye, there are not any illusionary flowers within the empty sky.
Followers of the Means, if you wish to conform to the Dharma, simply maintain yourselves from doubting. If expanded, it fills the universe; if contracted, it has no room for even a single hair to face on. It shines solitary and vibrant, and has by no means lacked something. The attention doesn’t see it, the ear doesn’t hear it. What can we name it? An previous grasp stated, “To say it’s a factor is to overlook the purpose.” Simply see it in individual! What extra is there? One would by no means end talking of it. Every of you must work diligently! And take excellent care of yourselves.
Commentary:
‘Don’t use your minds wrongly’ signifies that you must cease leaving your thoughts to search for the true-Self, as a result of the thoughts which is busy in the hunt for the true-Self isn’t any apart from the true-Self. ‘Wandering round along with your burden simply as the good ocean retains transferring corpses round’ implies countless discrimination by data. This prevents you from realising the true-Self by elevating extra illusions, obstacles. ‘With no mote within the eye, there are not any illusionary flowers within the empty sky’ signifies that the rationale why you can’t see the true-Self isn’t that there’s any impediment between you and it however that your eyes and ears are deluded by illusions, imaginary labels and varieties.
‘Simply maintain yourselves from doubting’ signifies that we must always simply recognise the true-Self, with out wandering in useless on the lookout for it, since it’s revealing itself each by filling the universe and by having no room for even a single hair to face on. ‘The attention doesn’t see it, the ear doesn’t hear it’ signifies that we will neither see nor hear it by discriminating. In reality, we can’t cease seeing and listening to it even for a second as soon as we’re not deluded by illusions as a result of there may be nothing else but it surely. Strictly talking, seeing and listening to are incorrect expressions since seeing and listening to suggest duality; topic and object, whereas the true-Self is non-duality, Oneness. Because of this an previous grasp stated, “To say it’s a factor is to overlook the purpose.”
Pupil: “How is it when all clouds disappear and the solar seems?”
Grasp: “All of the clouds are the solar.”
Pupil: “How is it when the attention doesn’t see it, the ear doesn’t hear it?”
Grasp: “The attention and the ear are additionally it.”
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