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INTRODUCTORY NOTES TO
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HSIN HSIN MING
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Verses on the Faith Mind
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by
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The 3rd Zen Patriarch, Sengstau
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These verses were given to me as a birthday present on 29
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September 1982, while I was residing at Suan Mokkh Monastery in
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Southern Thailand They were given to me by a westerner who had
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been ordained as a Buddhist monk and who had painstakingly
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written them down by hand. There was no reference as to where he
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had found them and so it is not possible to give credit to the
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translator or publisher or ask permission for their further
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dissemination beyond these few words of acknowledgment.
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The desire to write lengthly notes on these verses is a
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sign of my own attachment to them. The fact that I do not write
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those notes may, perhaps, be credited to some small sliver of
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wisdom derived from my study of them. In any case, having made
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what acknowledgments as are possible, I offer these verses on the
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Faith Mind to you, the reader, for your welfare and spiritual
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profit.
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Peace....
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Omshanti....
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HSIN HSIN MING
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Verses on the Faith Mind
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by
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The 3rd Zen Patriarch, Sengstau
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The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no
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preferences.
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When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear
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and undisguised.
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Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth
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are set infinitely apart.
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If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or
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against anything.
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To set up what you like against what you dislike is the
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disease of the mind.
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When the deep meaning of things is not understood the mind's
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essential peace is disturbed to no avail.
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The Way is perfect like vast space when nothing is lacking
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and nothing is in excess.
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Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject that
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we do not see the true nature of things.
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Live neither in the entanglements of outer things nor in
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inner feelings of emptiness.
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Be serene in the oneness of things and such erroneous views
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will disappear by themselves.
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When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very
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effort fills you with activity.
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As long as you remain in one extreme or the other you will
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never know Oneness.
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Those who do not live in the single Way fail in both
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activity and passivity, assertion and denial.
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To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to
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assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality.
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The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you
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wander from the truth.
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Stop talking and thinking, and there is nothing you will not
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be able to know.
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To return to the root is to find the meaning, but to pursue
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appearances is to miss the source.
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At the moment of inner enlightenment there is a going beyond
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appearance and emptiness.
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The changes that appear to occur in the empty world we call
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real only because of our ignorance.
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Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.
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Do not remain in the dualistic state -- avoid such pursuits
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carefully.
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If there is even a trace of this and that, of right and
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wrong, the Mind-essence will be lost in confusion.
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Although all dualities come from the One, do not be attached
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even to this One.
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When the mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the
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world can offend, and when such a thing can no longer offend, it
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ceases to exist in the old way.
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When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases
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to exist.
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When thought objects vanish, the thinking-subject vanishes,
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as when the mind vanishes, objects vanish.
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Things are objects because of the subject (mind); the mind
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(subject) is such because of things (object).
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Understand the relativity of these two and the basic
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reality: the unity of emptiness.
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In this emptiness the two are indistinguishable and each
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contains in itself the whole world.
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If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine you will
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not be tempted to prejudice and opinion.
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To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but
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those with limited views are fearful and irresolute; the faster
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they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging (attachment) cannot
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be limited; even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is
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to go astray.
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Just let things be in their own way and there will be
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neither coming nor going.
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Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will
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walk freely and undisturbed.
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When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for
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everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of
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judging brings annoyance and weariness.
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What benefits can be derived from distinctions and
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separations?
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If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the
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world of senses and ideas.
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Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true
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Enlightenment.
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The wise man strives to no goals but the foolish man fetters
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himself.
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There is one Dharma, not many; distinctions arise from the
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clinging needs of the ignorant.
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To seek Mind with the (discriminating) mind is the greatest
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of all mistakes.
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Rest and unrest derive from illusion; with enlightenment
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there is no liking and disliking.
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All dualities come from ignorant inference. They are like
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dreams or flowers in air: foolish to try to grasp them.
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Gain and loss, right and wrong: such thoughts must finally
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be abolished at once.
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If the eye never sleeps, all dreams will naturally cease.
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If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand
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things are as they are, of single essence.
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To understand the mystery of this One-essence is to be
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released from all entanglements.
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When all things are seen equally the timeless Self-essence
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is reached.
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No comparisons or analogies are possible in this causeless,
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relationless state.
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Consider movement stationary and the stationary in motion,
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both movement and rest disappear.
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When such dualities cease to exist Oneness itself cannot
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exist.
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To this ultimate finality no law or description applies.
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For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-
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centered striving ceases.
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Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is
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possible.
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With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing
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clings to us and we hold to nothing.
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All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of
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the mind's power.
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Here thought, feeling, knowledge, and imagination are of no
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value.
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In this world of suchness there is neither self nor other-
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than-self.
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To come directly into harmony with this reality just simply
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say when doubt arises, 'Not two.'
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In this 'not two' nothing is separate, nothing is excluded.
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No matter when or where, enlightenment means entering this
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truth.
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And this truth is beyond extension or diminution in time or
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space; in it a single thought is ten thousand years.
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Emptiness here, Emptiness there, but the infinite universe
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stands always before your eyes.
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Infinitelfy large and infinitely small; no difference, for
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definitions have vanished and no boundaries are seen.
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So too with Being and Non-Being.
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Don't waste time with doubts and arguments that have nothing
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to do with this.
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One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without
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distinction.
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To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about
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non-perfection.
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To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because
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the non-dual is one with trusting mind.
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Words!
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The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday,
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no tomorrow, no today.
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