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Let me tell you about the middle path.

Dressing in rough and dirty garments, letting your hair grow matted,
abstaining from eating any meat or fish, does not clean the one who is deluded.
Mortifying the flesh through excessive... continue...

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Dropping the views of being but clinging to the views of nothing,
this is like the sun in the east that gets clouded on itself. [Hui-neng]
Dropping the views of nothing but clinging to the views of being,
this is like the moon in the west that gets clouded on itself.
When mixing the views of being with the views of nothing,
the sun and the moon get double clouded.

Note: The sun shines at midnight, no place is not bright.

ChonTri 03/06/2009

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