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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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:FAITH MIND by Seng-Tsan the 3rd Zen Patriarch
:The Great Way is not difficult
:for 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 like against what
:you dislike is the disease of the mind
:When the deep meaning of things is not understood 
:the mind's essential peace is isturbed to no avail
:The Way is perfect like vast space
:where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess 
:Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or 
:reject that we do not see the true nature of things
:Live neither in the entanglements of outer 
:things nor in the 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 acheive passivity 
:your very effort fills you with activity
:As long as you remain in one extreme or the other 
:you will never know Oneness
:Those who do not live in the single Way ail in 
:both activity and passivity, assertion and denial
:To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; 
:to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality
:The more you talk and think about it the 
:further astray you wander from the truth
:Stop talking and thinking and there is 
:nothing you will not be able to know
:To return to the root is to find the meaning
:but to pursue appearance is to miss the source
:At the moment of inner enlightenment
:there is a going beyond appearance and emptiness
:The changes that appear to occur in the empty world 
:we call real only because of our ignorance
:Do not search for the truth only cease to cherish opinions
:Do not remain in a dualistic state ...
:avoid such pursuits carefully
:If there is even a trace of this and that, 
:of right and wrong,the Mind-essence will be lost in confusion
:Although all dualities come from the One
:do not be attached even to the One
:When the mind exists undisturbed in the Way
:nothing in the world can offend
:And when things can no longer offend
:it ceases to exist in the old way
:When no discriminating thoughts arise
:the old mind ceases to exist
:When thought objects vanish, the thinking subject vanishes
:as when the mind vanishes, objects vanish
:Things are objects because of the subject (mind) the mind :(subject) is such because of things (object)
:Understand the relativity of these two
:and the basic reality: the unity of emptiness
:In this Emptiness the two are indistinguishable
:and each contains in itself the whole world
:If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine 
:you will not be tempted to prejudice and opinion
:To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult
:But those with limited views are fearful and irresolute
:The faster they hurry, the slower they go
:and clinging (attachment) cannot be limited
:Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment 
:is to go astray
:Just let things be in their own way
:and there will be neither coming nor going
:Obey the nature of things (your own nature)
:and you will walk freely and undisturbed
:When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden
:for everything is murky and unclear
:And the burdensome practise of judging
:brings annoyance and weariness
:What benefit can be derived
:from distinctions and separations?
:If you wish to move in the One Way,
:do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas 
:Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true Enlightenment
:The wise man strives to no goals but the foolish man fetters himself
:There is one Dharma, not many;
:distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant
:To seek Mind with the (discriminating) mind
:is the greatest of all mistakes
:Rest and unrest derive from passion,
:with enlightenment there is no liking or disliking
:All dualities come from ignorant inference
:they are like dreams or flowers in the air
:Foolish to try to grasp them
:Gain and loss, right and wrong,
:such thoughts must finally be abolished at once
:If the eye never sleeps
:all dreams will naturally cease
:If the mind makes no discriminations
:the ten thousand things are as they are - of single essence
:To understand the mystery of this One essence
:is to be released from all entanglements
:When all things are seen equally
:the timeless Self-essence is reached
:No comparisons or analogies are possible
:in this causeless, relationless state
:Consider movement stationary,
:and the stationary in motion
:Both movement and rest disappear
:when such dualities cease to exist
:Oneness itself cannot exist,
:to this ultimate finality no law or description applies
:For the unified mind in accord with the Way
:all self-centered striving ceases
:Doubts and irresolutions vanish
:and life in true faith is possible
:With a single stroke we are free from bondage
:nothing clings to us and we hold to nothing
:All is empty, clear, self-illumination
:with no exertion of the mind's power
:Here thought, feeling, knowledge and imagination are 
:of no value in this world of Suchness there is neither 
:self nor other than self
:To come directly into harmony with this reality
:just simply say when doubt arises: "Not two"
:In this "not two" nothing is separate, nothing 
:is excluded no matter when or where, enlightenment 
:means entering this truth
:And this truth is beyond extension or diminution in time 
:or space in it a single thought is ten thousand years
:Emptiness here, Emptiness there...
:but the infinite universe stands always before your eyes 
:Infinitely large and infinitely small, no difference for 
:definitions have vanished and no boundaries are seen
:So too with Being and non-Being
:Don't waste time in doubts and arguements that have nothing to do with this
:One thing, all things:
:move along and intermingle without distinction
:To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection
:To live in this faith is the road to non-duality
:Because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind
:Words !
:The Way is beyond language
:For in it there is
:no yesterday
:no tommorrow
:no today
(VERSES ON THE FAITH MIND by Seng-Tsan the third Zen Patriarch. Translated by
Ricahard B. Clarke).
 
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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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