All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas. It is like water and ice: Apart from water, no ice, Outside living beings, no Buddhas. Not knowing it is near, they seek it afar. What a pity! It is like one in the water who cries out with thirst; It is like the child of a rich house who has strayed among the poor. The cause of our circling through the six worlds Is that we are on the dark paths of ignorance. Dark path upon dark path treading, When shall we escape from birth-and-death? The Zen meditation of the Mahayana Is beyond all our praise. Giving and morality and the other perfections, Taking of the Name, repentance, discipline, And the many other right actions, All come back to the practice of meditation. By the merit of a single sitting He destroys innumerable accumulated sins. How should there be wrong paths for him? The Pure Land paradise is not far. When in reverence this truth is heard even once, He who praises it and gladly embraces it has merit without end How much more he who turns within And confirms directly his own nature, That his own nature is no-nature Such has transcended vain words. The gate opens, and cause and effect are one
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