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Others are so very sharp
While I alone am dull
Others are so purposeful
Only I don't understand
Aimless； drifting； weak and dumb
Uninteresting and bland
I see I'm different from the rest
For I take in what's plainly shown
And I take my sustenance
Only from the great unknown
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Seeming utter emptiness
Quite impossible to trace
Yet it contains all images
Within its wide embrace
Appearing total darkness
Yet you see that it is right
To stay with its obscurity
The only origin of light
This ever present openness
At center and within
Can be seen just anytime
So look and look again
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Overcome by giving up
See that you are really nil
Look into your emptiness
If you want to have your fill
Be satisfied with little
Just content with what you need
If you are always wanting more
You surely are consumed by greed
Abide in your simplicity
Though you are not on display
See all things are shining bright
In marvelous array
If you do not boast or brag
Everyone will hold you high
If you do not argue
You will prevail thereby
Only see you are complete
And all things have come to you
Overcome by giving up
All except your inner view
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Say your piece and then be still
Like nature in a storm
That rains and blows and ceases
And sees the sun reborn
Open to the inward view
You are at one with all existence
There's nothing blocking up the way
Or putting up resistance
If you're at home with nothingness
And simply trust what comes about
You'll find that all is in its place
Without a question or a doubt
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Who stands on tiptoe topples
Who runs ahead soon looses speed
Who goes on show is hidden
Who pushes far gives up the lead
Don't depart from what is given
The ever present here and now
Don't overreach and don't oppose
Invite； admire and allow
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Before creation did occur
This blessed emptiness was here
Alone forever and at peace
The source of all that does appear
Eternally unchanging
Forever lacking limit
This void is all potential
The everlasting ultimate
It flows through all existence
And then returns to source
It's ever at your center
Your only true recourse
For here begins the universe
The earth and humankind
Following this greatest way
You can never be defined
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The naked center doesn't change
Its quietude is absolute
Yet from it spring all things that move
This bare awareness is the root
Can you go about all day
And never leave your true abode
No matter how enticing are
The splendors of the road？
Don't think that you can run around
And act a perfect fool
Just see that you are at the eye
Of nature's whirlpool
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Can you walk and leave no tracks？
Make no errors when you talk？
Count without a tally？
Secure a door without a lock？
You can abandon no one
There's nothing you can leave behind
In you there are no limits
You are forever unconfined
What happens is spontaneous
Good and bad are just the same
In origin identical
Beyond both praise and blame
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Know the strong but keep the weak
The whole wide world is born in you
You'll see just what a child sees
A vast and comprehensive view
Know the light but keep the dark
And watch ten thousand things emerge
In you they have their residence
Where space and time converge
Know the high but keep the low
Humility will honor you
Attend to your vacuity
There's nothing else to do
Be like an uncarved block of wood
Don't squander your potential
Or overlook your vacant core
Nothing else is so essential
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Do you want to change the world？
You cannot possibly succeed
The given cannot be improved
On this the seers are agreed
At times you find you're out in front
At other times you fall behind
Sometimes you're all commotion
But afterwards you must unwind
When all around is turmoil
Just stay with the serene
You are the quiet center
Of the ever changing scene
Can you see things as they are
And let them be all on their own？
Remain in pure awareness
You never need to stray from home
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There is an ancient way to lead
That just allows and does not force
For what goes out will come around
And violence will lead to wars
The one who sees completes a task
And stops when it is done
Seeing all is on its own
And not controlled by anyone
The seer sees that all is well
And does not need to please
Just gives acceptance everywhere
Puts everyone at ease
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Weapons lead to violence
Which everyone despises
Avoid them altogether
Allow no compromises
If use of weapons has to be
When enemies just leave no choice
Use them but reluctantly
In victory do not rejoice
Ascendancy brings sorrow
And triumph doesn't carry pleasure
It severs you from wholeness
And robs you of your real treasure
Victory is like a funeral
Where loss of life must make you sad
For putting other people down
Never ought to make you glad
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Awareness is not limited
It's like an uncarved block of wood
With infinite potential
Beyond all usefulness for good
If leaders could stay centered
In awareness pure and plain
This world would be as nourishing
As nature's gentle rain
Everyone would be at peace
And always living in the whole
Opposition and division
Could never take their toll
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It may be said that you are wise
To see yourself as others do
But you are wiser still to see
From your own central point of view
Then you see you have it all
The riches that are always here
Belong to you completely
Because your vision is so clear
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The empty center's everywhere
It flows both left and right
It brings to pass ten thousand things
And yet it never leaves your sight
It welcomes everything around
On nothing does it make a claim
It's in the heart of each and all
This ultimate without a name
Some can see that it is great
And some will say that it's obscure
It is your real identity
Simplicity that will endure
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Totality will be with you
If you can see the simple presence
Although there's danger all around
You give complete acceptance
Good music； food and company
Are welcome when you're traveling
The inner truth seems tasteless
Yet it produces everything
You look and you see nothing
You listen and hear silence
Its use is inexhaustible
It's ever worthy of reliance
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