self-centered striving ceases...

For the Realized mind at one with the Way
all self-centered striving ceases.

Doubts and irresolutions vanish
and the Truth is confirmed in you.

With a single stroke you are freed from bondage;

nothing clings to you and you hold to nothing.

All is empty, clear, self-illuminating,
with no need to exert the mind.

Here, thinking, feeling, understanding, and imagination
are of no value.

In this world "as it really is"
there is neither self nor other-than-self.


- Seng-ts'an, Third Zen Patriarch