Sengcan famous quotes

03-30-2025

The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; do not like, do not dislike: All will then be clear.
-- Sengcan

#Peace #Perfect #Way
Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.
-- Sengcan

#Thinking #Roots #Talking
Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves.
-- Sengcan

#Peace #Disappear
The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.
-- Sengcan

#Struggle #Mind #Likes
When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
-- Sengcan

#Mind #Arise
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences...I f you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.
-- Sengcan

#Struggle #Mind #Wish
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.
-- Sengcan

#Two #Consciousness #Disturbed
The struggle between "for" & "against" is the mind's worst disease.
-- Sengcan

#Struggle #Acceptance #Mind
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.
-- Sengcan

#Perfect #Mind #Way
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.
-- Sengcan

#Pain #Real #Oneness
In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.
-- Sengcan

#Reality #Self #World
Return to the root and you will find the meaning.
-- Sengcan

#Roots #Understanding #Return
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
-- Sengcan

#Way #Preference #Difficult
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.
-- Sengcan

#Struggle #Evil #Mind
Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go.
-- Sengcan

#Thinking #Steps
The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.
-- Sengcan

#Path #Difficulty #Ultimate
Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.
-- Sengcan

#Oneness #Void #Entanglement
To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.
-- Sengcan

#Mind #Disease #Dislike
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?
-- Sengcan

#Practice #Judging #Benefits
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.
-- Sengcan

#Mind #Way #World
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 nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.
-- Sengcan

#Self #Doubt #Mind
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.
-- Sengcan

#Moving #Perfection #Anxiety
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.
-- Sengcan

#Views #Ideas #Enlightenment
The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
-- Sengcan

#Heaven #Earth #Way

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