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 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.
Interpretation
True tranquility comes from accepting things as they are, without attachment or fear.
This quote emphasizes the importance of embracing life as it unfolds rather than being hindered by rigid views or desires. Sengcan suggests that when people cling to their expectations or rush through life, they often create obstacles for themselves. By accepting the natural flow of life and recognizing one's own true nature, individuals can find a sense of peace and liberation.
In practice
During a mindfulness seminar, a speaker might use this quote to illustrate the importance of being present.
One thing, all things: move among 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.
Return to the root and you will find the meaning.
When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing 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 is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go.
Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.
Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.
Who controls the past now controls the future._x000D_ Who controls the present now controls the past._x000D_ Who controls the past now controls the future._x000D_ Who controls the present now?
While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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