Sengcan Quotes

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.

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.

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

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

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.

The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

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.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.

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.

When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.

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

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.