Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don’t worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going.
Seung Sahn, 1927 – 2004
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We all have a clear, wondrously bright field from the beginning. With boundless wisdom, journey beyond this, letting go of accomplishments. Abandon all scheming and simply take on responsibility. Having turned yourself around, and accepting where you are, set out along your path, and a spiritual energy will marvelously move you along. Contact phenomena with total sincerity, not a single atom of dust outside yourself.
Hongzhi, 1091-1157, Chinese Chan (Zen) monk
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A flower falls, even though we love it;
a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen
Nothing here below is profane
for those who know how to see.
Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and philosopher, The Divine Milieu, p.69
