" The Way "...

The Way is present before our eyes, yet what is before our eyes is hard to understand.

People like the unusual and enjoy the new;

they miss what is right in front of their eyes and do not know where the Way is.

The Way is the immediate presence:

if you are unaware of the immediate presence, then your mind races, your intellect runs, and you go on thinking compulsively.

All of this is due to shallowness of spiritual power, and shallowness of spiritual power is due to racing in the mind.



- from 'The Secret of the Golden Flower'.
[Translated by Thomas Cleary]