Sengcan Quotes

#1. Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go.

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#2. The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things offer no offence.

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#3. The struggle between "for" & "against" is the mind's worst disease.

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#4. 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.

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#5. The more you think and talk, the more you lose the Way.

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#6. The great way is not difficult if you don't cling to good or bad. Just let go of your preferences; and everything will become perfectly clear.

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#7. Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

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#8. In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

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#9. Do not search for the truth; Only cease to cherish opinions.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.

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#13. To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

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#14. If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.

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#15. Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.

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#16. If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against. The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind.

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#17. In the "Not Two" are no separate things, yet all things are included.

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#18. The mind, the Buddha, living creatures - these are not three different things.

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#19. 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?

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#20. When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.

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#21. Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.

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#22. There is no need to seek truth, only stop having views.

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#23. Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves.

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#24. To follow the path look to the master follow the master walk with the master see through the master become the master.

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#25. The one is none other than the All, the All none other than the One.

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#26. The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.

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