27 November 2022

excessive talking & thinking 
turn you from harmony with the dao 

cut off talking & thinking
and there is nowhere you cannot penetrate

1 comment

taiji heartwork said...

Attributed to Seng Ts’an (b.606AD), the Third Patriarch, but probably written later.


This translation by Ch’an Master Sheng-yen “Faith in Mind”, 1987, ISBN 0-9609854-2-5