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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
 
:There is nothing difficult about the Great Way, 
:But, avoid choosing! 
:Only when you neither love nor hate, 
:Does it appear in all clarity. 
:A hair's breadth of deviation from it, 
:And deep gulf is set between heaven and earth. 
:If you want to get hold of what it looks like, 
:Do not be anti- or pro- anything. 
:The conflict of longing and loathing, -- 
:This is the disease of the mind. 
:Not knowing the profound meaning of things, 
:We disturb our peace of mind to no purpose. 
:Perfect like a Great Space, 
:The Way has nothing lacking, nothing in excess. 
:Truly, because of our accepting and rejecting, 
:We have not the suchness of things. 
:Neither follow after, 
:Nor dwell with the Doctrine of the Void. 
:If the mind is at peace, 
:Those wrong views disappear of themselves. 
:When activity is stopped and passivity obtains, 
:This passivity is again the state of activity. 
:Remaining in movement or quiescence, -- 
:How shall we know the One? 
:Not thoroughly understanding the unity of the Way, 
:Both (activity and quiescence) are failures. 
:If you get rid of phenomena, all things are lost. 
:If you follow after the Void, 
:you turn your back on the selflessness of things. 
:The more talking and thinking, 
:The farther from truth. 
:Cutting off all speech, all thought, 
:There is nowhere that you cannot go. 
:Returning to the root, we get the essence; 
:Following after appearances, we loose the spirit. 
:If for only a moment we see within, 
:We have surpassed the emptiness of things. 
:Changes that go on in this emptiness 
:All arise because of our ignorance. 
:Do not seek for the Truth; 
:Religiously avoid following it. 
:If there is the slightest trace of this and that, 
:The Mind is lost in a maze of complexity. 
:Duality arises from Unity, -- 
:But do not be attached to this Unity. 
:When the mind is one, and nothing happens, 
:Everything in the world is unblameable. 
:If things are unblamed, they cease to exist; 
:If nothing happens there is no mind. 
:When things cease to exist, the mind follows them; 
:When the mind vanishes, things also follow it. 
:Things are things because of the Mind; 
:The Mind is the Mind because of things. 
:If you wish to know what these two are, 
:They are originally one Emptiness. 
:In this Void both (Mind and things) are one, 
:All the myriad phenomena contained in both. 
:If you do not distinguish refined and coarse, 
:How can you be for this or against that? 
:The activity of the Great Way is vast; 
:It is neither easy nor difficult. 
:Small views are full of foxy fears; 
:The faster, the slower. 
:When we attach ourselves (to the idea of enlightenment) we lose our balance; 
:We infallibly enter the Crooked Way. 
:When we are not attached to anything, all things are as they are; 
:With Activity there is no going or staying. 
:Obeying our nature, we are in accord with the Way, 
:Wandering freely, without annoyance. 
:When our thinking is tied, it turns out from the truth; 
:It is dark, submerged, wrong. 
:It is foolish to irritate your mind; 
:Why shun this and be friend of that? 
:If you wish to travel in the True Vehicle, 
:Do not dislike the Six Dusts. 
:Indeed, not hating the Six Dusts 
:Is identical with Real Enlightenment. 
:The wise man does nothing; 
:The fool shackles himself. 
:The Truth has no distinctions; 
:These come from our foolish clinging to this and that 
:Seeking the Mind with the mind, -- 
:Is not this the greatest of all mistakes? 
:Illusion produces rest and motion; 
:Illumination destroys liking and disliking. 
:All these pairs of opposites 
:Are created by our own folly. 
:Dreams, delusions, flowers of air, -- 
:Why are we so anxious to have them in our grasp? 
:Profit and loss, right and wrong, -- 
:Away with them once for all! 
:If the eye does not sleep, 
:All dreaming ceases naturally. 
:If the mind makes no discriminations, 
:All things are as they are. 
:In the deep mystery of this "Things as they are", 
:We are released from our relations to them. 
:When all things are seen "with equal mind", 
:They return to their nature. 
:No description by analogy is possible 
:Of this state where all relations have ceased. 
:When we stop movement, there is no-movement 
:When we stop resting, there is no-rest. 
:When both cease to be, 
:How can the Unity subsist? 
:Things are ultimately, in their finality, 
:Subject to no law. 
:For the accordant mind in its unity, 
:(Individual) activity ceases. 
:All doubts are cleared up, 
:True faith is confirmed. 
:Nothing remains behind; 
:There is not anything we must remember. 
:Empty, lucid, self-illuminated, 
:With no over-exertion of the power of the mind. 
:This is where thought is useless, 
:This is what knowledge cannot fathom. 
:In the World of Reality, 
:There is no self, no other-than-self. 
:Should you desire immediate correspondence (with this Reality) 
:All that can be said is "No Duality!" 
:When there is no duality, all things are one, 
:There is nothing that is not included. 
:The Enlightened of all times and places 
:Have entered into this Truth. 
:Truth cannot be increased or decreased; 
:An (instantaneous) thought lasts a myriad years. 
:There is no here, no there; 
:Infinity is before our eyes. 
:The infinitely small is as large as infinitely great; 
:For limits are non-existent things. 
:The infinitely large is as small as the infinitely minute; 
:No eye can see their boundaries. 
:What is, is not, 
:What is not, is. 
:Until you have grasped this fact, 
:Your position is simply untenable. 
:One thing is all things; 
:All things are one thing. 
:If this is so for you, 
:There is no need to worry about perfect knowledge.
:The believing mind is not dual; 
:What is dual is not the believing mind. 
:Beyond all language, 
:For it there is no past, no present, no future.
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Introduction
Page One ... Page Two ... 
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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