Ein voriger Artikel beschrieb den ersten Teil dieser Überlieferung des frühen Zen.
https://mentalitea.com/faith-in-mind
Dieser Teil geht nun weiter im Text. Es muss gesagt werden, dass diese Beiträge weder eine Interpretation aus dem Zen, noch islamwissenschaftliche oder theologische Abhandlungen sind, sondern eine persönliche Reflexion des Autors ohne Anspruch auf Allgemeingültigkeit.
Eine Gesprächspartnerin (der Begriff 'Patientin' zeigt eine Hierarchie an, die in einem therapeutischen Gespräch nicht unbedingt immer da ist, wenn nämlich im Therapeuten etwas geschieht, was durch die gegenseitige Beziehung nur möglich ist, - Einsicht in eine Sache, die uns allen gemeinsam ist -)
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute.
Im großen Weg zu leben ist weder leicht noch schwer, aber diejenigen mit eingeschränkten Sichtweisen sind angstvoll und unentschlossen.
Das bedeutet, es bedarf eines "normalen" oder mittleren Aufwands, jedoch Entschlossenheit und Furchtlosigkeit, sowie eine uneingeschränkte Sicht.
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 practice 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 illusion. With enlightenment there is no liking and disliking. All dualities come from ignorant inference. They are like dreams or flowers in 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 freed from bondage. Nothing clings to us, and we hold to nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating 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 doubts arise, "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 arguments that have nothing to do with this.
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.
WORDS!
The Way is beyond language, for in it there is
no yesterday,
no tomorrow,
no today.
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