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<\/picture>\nDrawing by Ansgar Holmberg<\/strong><\/h5>\nVerses<\/strong><\/h1>\nI just remain in spontaneous harmony.
\nNot grasping or rejecting,
\nnothing left to assert or oppose.
\nWhat use are fancy titles
\nand expensive clothes of vermilion and purple?
\nThis entire mountain is free
\nof even a speck of dust.
\nSupernatural powers and miraculous activity:
\nfetching water and carrying firewood<\/p>\n
Not willing to let go of grasping and rejecting,
\nIn vain you labor studying the spiritual path.
\nYou read the prescription but you don\u2019t take the medicine-
\nHow can you be free from your sickness?
\nGrasp \u201cemptiness\u201d and it turns out to be form;
\nGrasping form it soon proves impermanent.
\nForm and emptiness \u2013 neither are my possessions;
\nSitting erect, I see my native home.<\/p>\n
The past is already past-
\nDon\u2019t try to regain it.
\nThe present doesn\u2019t stay-
\nDon\u2019t try to grasp it over and over.
\nThe future isn\u2019t here yet-
\nDon\u2019t ponder it beforehand.
\nWhen the three times are revealed as non-existent,
\nmind is the same as awakened nature.
\nTo quietly function relying on emptiness-
\nThis is manifesting profound action.
\nNot even the least phenomena really exists-
\nWhatever comes to the eye, leave it be.
\nNo rules to be kept, no filth to be cleaned;
\nWith empty mind truly revealed,
\nAll things no longer have birth or death.
\nWhen you are like this
\nThe ultimate achievement is finished.<\/p>\n
No-greed surpasses charity.
\nNo-delusion surpasses concentration.
\nNo-ill will surpasses morality.
\nNo-self-centered thinking surpasses cultivating connections.
\nI follow an ordinary person\u2019s affairs,
\nand at night sleep at ease.
\nIn winter I use the fireplace
\nwith the fire that\u2019s free of smoke.
\nI neither fear the dark spirit of misfortune,
\nnor seek after her sister good luck.
\nTrusting in the flow, what\u2019s needed comes.
\nWe all ride together in the boat of wisdom –
\nif you have this understanding,
\nyour merit has no bounds.<\/p>\n
When the mind\u2019s left as is,
\nthe spirit is naturally empty.
\nWithout a need for medicine,
\nills disperse of themselves.
\nWhen ills disperse,
\nthe jewel in the lotus appears.
\nDon\u2019t worry over affairs,
\ndon\u2019t rush around!
\nThe wise, seeing wealth and craving,
\nknow them to be empty illusions.
\nFood and clothes sustain body and life,
\nbut only for awhile.-
\nI advise you to learn being as is.
\nWhen it\u2019s time I move my hermitage and go,
\nand there\u2019s nothing left behind.<\/p>\n
\n
\n<\/div>\nBased on translations by Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Yoshitaka Iriya, and Dana Fraser, (with reference to Cheng-Chien Bhikshu [Mario Poceski]) of the records of Layman Pang, originally in the Ancestral Hall Collection (of 952) and the Jingde Era Transmission of the Lamp (of 1004).<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
\n<\/div>\nStudy the Teachings.<\/h1>\nWhat Speaks to YOU?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n
I just remain in spontaneous harmony.
\nNot grasping or rejecting,
\nnothing left to assert or oppose.
\nWhat use are fancy titles
\nand expensive clothes of vermilion and purple?
\nThis entire mountain is free
\nof even a speck of dust.
\nSupernatural powers and miraculous activity:
\nfetching water and carrying firewood<\/p>\n
Not willing to let go of grasping and rejecting,
\nIn vain you labor studying the spiritual path.
\nYou read the prescription but you don\u2019t take the medicine-
\nHow can you be free from your sickness?
\nGrasp \u201cemptiness\u201d and it turns out to be form;
\nGrasping form it soon proves impermanent.
\nForm and emptiness \u2013 neither are my possessions;
\nSitting erect, I see my native home.<\/p>\n
The past is already past-
\nDon\u2019t try to regain it.
\nThe present doesn\u2019t stay-
\nDon\u2019t try to grasp it over and over.
\nThe future isn\u2019t here yet-
\nDon\u2019t ponder it beforehand.
\nWhen the three times are revealed as non-existent,
\nmind is the same as awakened nature.
\nTo quietly function relying on emptiness-
\nThis is manifesting profound action.
\nNot even the least phenomena really exists-
\nWhatever comes to the eye, leave it be.
\nNo rules to be kept, no filth to be cleaned;
\nWith empty mind truly revealed,
\nAll things no longer have birth or death.
\nWhen you are like this
\nThe ultimate achievement is finished.<\/p>\n
No-greed surpasses charity.
\nNo-delusion surpasses concentration.
\nNo-ill will surpasses morality.
\nNo-self-centered thinking surpasses cultivating connections.
\nI follow an ordinary person\u2019s affairs,
\nand at night sleep at ease.
\nIn winter I use the fireplace
\nwith the fire that\u2019s free of smoke.
\nI neither fear the dark spirit of misfortune,
\nnor seek after her sister good luck.
\nTrusting in the flow, what\u2019s needed comes.
\nWe all ride together in the boat of wisdom –
\nif you have this understanding,
\nyour merit has no bounds.<\/p>\n
When the mind\u2019s left as is,
\nthe spirit is naturally empty.
\nWithout a need for medicine,
\nills disperse of themselves.
\nWhen ills disperse,
\nthe jewel in the lotus appears.
\nDon\u2019t worry over affairs,
\ndon\u2019t rush around!
\nThe wise, seeing wealth and craving,
\nknow them to be empty illusions.
\nFood and clothes sustain body and life,
\nbut only for awhile.-
\nI advise you to learn being as is.
\nWhen it\u2019s time I move my hermitage and go,
\nand there\u2019s nothing left behind.<\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\n
Based on translations by Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Yoshitaka Iriya, and Dana Fraser, (with reference to Cheng-Chien Bhikshu [Mario Poceski]) of the records of Layman Pang, originally in the Ancestral Hall Collection (of 952) and the Jingde Era Transmission of the Lamp (of 1004).<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n
\n<\/div>\nStudy the Teachings.<\/h1>\n
What Speaks to YOU?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\n<\/div>\n