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Introduction
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Page Three ... Without Commentary ... Cleary Translation ... Shinjin-No-Mei D.T.Suzuki
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A translation known as Faith Mind by Clark is a W.I.P.
as is the original Chinese
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:HsinHsinMing
:"Poem on the True Mind" by Seng Ts'an, 
:from "The Story of Chinese Zen" by
:Nan Huai-Chin, Thomas Cleary trans:
:The Ultimate Way is without difficulty,
:It's only averse to discrimination:
:Just do not hate or love,
:And it will be thoroughly clear.
:A hairsbreadth's miss
:Is as the distance between sky and earth.
:If you want to have it appear before you
:Don't keep conforming and opposing.
:Opposition and conformity struggling
:Become a sickness in the mind.
:If you don't know the hidden truth
:You work in vain at quieting thought.
:It is round as space,
:Without lack or excess.
:It is indeed because of grasping and rejecting
:That you are therefore not thus.
:Do not pursue existing objects,
:Do not dwell in forbearance of voidness:
:In a uniformly equanimous heart
:These quietly disappear of themselves.
:Stop movement to return to stillness,
:And stopping makes even more movement:
:As long as you remain in dual extremes,
:How can you know they're of one kind?
:If you don't know they're of one kind,
:You will lose efficacy in both realms.
:Trying to follow emptiness is turning 
:away from emptiness.
:Much talk and much cogitation
:Estranges you from it even more:
:Stop talking and cogitating,
:And you penetrate everywhere.
:Return to the root and you get the essence;
:Follow perceptions and you lose the source.
:The instant you turn awareness around,
:You transcend the emptiness before the eon.
:Changes in the emptiness before us
:All come from arbitrary views:
:It is not necessary to seek reality,
:All that is needed is ending the views.
:Dualistic views do not abide;
:Be careful not to pursue them.
:As soon as there is affirmation and denial,
:You lose your mind in confusion.
:Two exist because of one;
:Do not even keep the one.
:When the one mind is unborn,
:Myriad things have no fault.
:No fault, no things;
:Unborn, unminding.
:When the subject disappears from objects,
:Objects submerge along with the subject.
:Objects are objects because of the subject,
:The subject is the subject because of objects.
:If you want to know them both, 
:they are basically one void.
:One voidness the same in both
:Equally contains myriad images.
:If you do not see fine and coarse,
:How could there be preference?
:The Great Way is broad,
:Without ease or difficulty.
:Small views and foxy doubts
:Show you up the more you hurry.
:If you cling to it, you lose measure
:And will inevitably enter a false path.
:Let it be as it naturally is;
:Its body neither goes nor stays.
:Let your nature merge with the Way,
:And you will roam free of vexation.
:Tying down thoughts goes against the real;
:Oblivion is not good.
:It is not good to belabor the spirit;
:Why estrange the familiar?
:If you want to gain the way of oneness,
:Don't be averse to the six sense fields.
:The six sense fields are not bad;
:After all they're the same as true awakening.
:The wise do not contrive;
:Fools bind themselves.
:Things are not different in themselves;
:You arbitrarily get attached yourself.
:If you take the mind to use the mind,
:Is this not a big mistake?
:When deluded, you create peace and chaos,
:When enlightened, there is no good or bad.
:All dualistic extremes
:Come from subjective considerations.
:Dreams, illusions, flowers in the air;
:Why bother to grasp them?
:Gain, loss, right, wrong;
:Let them all go at once.
:If the eyes do not sleep,
:Dreams disappear of themselves.
:If the mind does not differ,
:All things are one suchness.
:One suchness embodies the mystery,
:Utterly still and unconditioned.
:To see all things equally
:Is to return again to the natural state.
:Without any reason, therefore,
:You cannot judge or compare.
:Stopping is movement without motion;
:Movement is still without stopping:\.
:Since both are not established,
:How can one be such?
:When you find out the ultimate consummation,
:You do not keep rules and models.
:When the mind in harmony is equanimous,
:All doings come to rest.
:When doubts are thoroughly cleared,
:True belief is directly in tune.
:Nothing at all stays;
:There's nothing to fix in mind.
:When open and clear, spontaneously aware,
:You aren't wasting mental effort.
:The realm that is not an object of thought
:Cannot be assessed by conscious feelings.
:The reality realm of true suchness
:Has no other or self.
:If you want to tune in right away,
:Just speak of nonduality.
:Nonduality is all the same;
:There's nothing it doesn't contain.
:The wise ones of the ten directions
:All enter this source.
:The source is neither expansive nor contracted;
:One instant is ten thousand years.
:There is nowhere that it is not;
:The ten directions are right before the eyes.
:The small is the same as the large;
:You forget all about the bounds of objects.
:The largest is the same as the small;
:You do not see beyond it.
:Being is none other than nonbeing
:Nonbeing is none other than being;
:Anything that is not like this,
:Definitely should not be kept.
:One is all,
:All are one;
:If you can just be like this,
:What ruminations will not end?
:The true mind is nondual,
:Nonduality makes the mind true.
:There's no more way to talk of it;
:It is not past, or future, or present.
 
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Introduction
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Page Three ... Without Commentary ... Cleary Translation ... Shinjin-No-Mei D.T.Suzuki
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A translation known as Faith Mind by Clark is a W.I.P.
as is the original Chinese
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