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Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammaa sambuddhassa
(Homage to the Blessed, Noble and Perfectly Enlightened
One.)
the dhamma is well-expounded by the blessed one,
Apparent here
and now, timeless, encouraging investigation,
Leading to liberation, to be experienced individually by the
wise.
gate, gate paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaho
(Gone, gone, Gone beyond, Gone completely
beyond, Praise to Awakening!)
Resistance does not mean walls
and fences, nonresistance does not mean open space. If you can understand in this way, mind and matter are fundamentally the
same.
-Tsu-hsin
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The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and
began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and
you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you
had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was
terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But
little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there
was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into
the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.
~ Mary Oliver ~
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