When you are to relax, simply sit down, or lie down, nothing in your mind, not doing this for the sake of something, not doing this to know something, not doing this to become enlightened, be in calmness with empty mind.
起きて動くときにも、ただ無心に行い、 片付けるべきことをなすのみ。
When you get up for action, you simply move, nothing in your mind, and simply clear up the things that need to be done.
What to do, is not the important point. What to see, is not the important point. What to know, and to become enlightened, is not the important point.
静かに座り、また静かに動き、なんであれ、ただ、ひたすら どちらにも無心で在ることが大切なこと。
Sitting quietly, or moving quietly, whatever you are doing or not doing, just simply, not minding on yourself and on your actions is the important point.
There is no need for temples, for monks, for gurus, for scriptures. Zen sitting is not for gaining enlightenment. Zen sitting is not for solving your mental pains and problems. It is simply being in calmness, relaxing in the sake of nothing.
It is not that your mind becomes empty, as a consequence of enlightenment. Being there having nothing in your mind, you understand that THAT is already the enlightenment, and you just simply smile.
Then, what was all the training for? THAT is simply to relax with nothing in your mind, being in calmness, living with nothing in your mind, dying with nothing in your mind.
Only to recognize that all that was needed, was simply THAT, and until you recognize that the only precious thing was THAT, searching and looking for something that looks unusual and outstanding, trying out and doing everything exhaustively that seems necessary to be done, until you understand that all was really unnecessary to be done, are all the purposes of training.
If you wish to open yourself to enlightenment, you should begin by "loving" the quietness of empty mind, "loving" the inactions and actions with nothing in your mind. There is a well-said idiom, "Love comes around while doing things you like." How could you relax in empty mind, without at first, "loving" the nothingness of your mind?
How could you get along well with the empty mind, not "at first felling in love" with it? If trainings, spiritual works, Zen sittings, active Zen workouts, and all the other practices were hard, difficult and painful task to do, how could you get on well with the empty mind?
Sit or move, with nothing in your mind, searching for, hoping for, expecting for nothing, just simply get your mind off from the wandering mind or the enlightened mind, and give your body and soul over to the nothingness of your mind, knowledgeless and powerless nothingness.
Will people become enlightened if they follow the advice above? What will happen to them, what kind of power or wisdom will they find? If your mind wanders like that, and could not be empty,
あなたはもっと遠く、 宇宙の果てまで迷うべきだ。 徹底的に、とことん、迷うことが必要だ。
you should wander much further, further away to the end of the universe. It is necessary for you to exhaustively wander all the way.
それがあってこそ、初めてあなたは 我家のよさを知るからだ。
Only after then, will you recognize the comfort of being at your true home.
ただ、無心にくつろぎ、無心に動く。 仏性とはただ、それだけである。
Simply relaxing with nothing in mind, and simply moving with nothing in mind. The Buddha nature is simply THAT.
ただそれだけでよかった、 それだけが最も貴いのだと悟るまでの長い旅、 それが迷いである。
THAT was all that was necessary. The wandering mind is the long journey that will end when you recognize that THAT is the only precious thing.
The true man with no rank, the original face, the true self, the true nature, Buddha-Dhatu, the supreme subject, those are the different names of something residing inside you, which is since ancient times in India, so-called the observer at the center.
Therefore, anything that was perceived would mean that it is not THAT. Whether gained from Zen sitting or meditation, any experience and perception is absolutely not THAT. Even the perception being sensed here right now, truly as it is, is not THAT.
Furthermore, being aware of the feeling of self existence here, right now, is not THAT.
THIS simply exists never looking at the inside, nor the outside, nor itself.
Simply this, something simply this, this that is that, this that is this.
Hence so-called the true center of the original face, is not something to be seen,
is not something to be found, is not something to be understood. That is simply existing, is simply being, is simply itself, without any purpose, without any seeking, without any merit.
The only single thing that could be done, is simply doing nothing through inner deepness, not even trying to see anything, purely there, purely just being there.
If you wish to embody THAT, sit down calmly not minding the posture, and after you close your eyes contemplating your surroundings as darkness of absolute nothingness, then dissolve and erase everything inside your body and your brain into darkness.
Next, open your eyes, with your sight staying vague, and keep your consciousness at the top of your head, as long as possible. After such meditation, walk quietly, like a beggar desiring nothing.
At the moment, do not try to see anything even though your eyes are open, and let the eyes float freely. Walk with your sight vague, never gazing strongly upon something. Try to slow down your blinks, and the movement of your sight.
