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Total and too virtual
No owed no more
Perfect like immense space,
[to the road] Nothing is missing, Nothing is left over.
It is our inability to fully accept us, to open, the one that creates a deep dissatisfaction. When the road is done, everything is perfect as it is. Everything occupies its exact place because if something was missing or leftover, Since everything is interconnected, Everything would completely change and it would not be as it is. What is the point of, well, wish or reject? The only thing we will get is more dissatisfaction.
Let's judge reality from our limited perspective, For example, pointing out injustices, Wars and suffering as imperfections. However, This perception is a fragmented vision of the totality. From the perspective of the road, Even difficult situations have their place and function. This does not imply that we should be indifferent to suffering, but our action must arise from a place of understanding and compassion, Not from rejection or aversion.
When we understand that "nothing is missing, Nothing left ”, Our motivation to act does not come from the desire to change reality to adjust it to an ideal, but from the compassion that arises from our interconnection with everything that exists. This understanding allows us to release the desire and rejection, living in peace with the totality of who we are and what it is, allowing our action to arise from wisdom and compassion as a result of our practice.
- From the work Xìn Xīn Míng Song to the Heart of Trust,
of the third Chan ancestor Jianzhi Sengcan.
Translation and comments by Dokushô Villalba.
Editions i, 2008. [↩]
No lighting everything is conditioned by the mind.