“The great way it’s not difficult or those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you dislike against what you like is the disease of the mind.
When the deep meaning of things is not understood, the mind’s essential peace is disturbed to no avail.
The way is perfect, like vest space.
Nothing is lacking, nothing In excess.
Indeed it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that we do not know the true nature of things.
Live neither in entanglement of outer things nor in inner feelings of emptiness.
Be serene in the oneness of things and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves.
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity, your very effort fills you with activity.
As long as you remain in one extreme or together, you will never know Oneness.” The Third Patriarch Of Zen
Today I met with a friend who’s partner is on life support at the local hospital. We had coffee.
The suffering inherent in change is a reality of life. I mentioned rising above what appears to be real, to encompass spirit and soul in different realities. To be in the world not of the world. I limited my lecture to that. I tend to go on and on and on.
A beautiful black woman in the next booth got up and said,” Right On!”
That validated what we all already knew: only Love is real. OM
This Picture Was Taken At Our Local Hospital-Artist Unknown (to me)
