The Heart Sutra Revisited -4

"The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences,
When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the smallest distinction and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.
If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against anything,
To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.
The way is perfect like vast space where nothing is lacking and nothing in excess.
Indeed it is due to our choosing that we do not see the true nature of things.
Live neither in the entanglements of outer things nor in the inner feelings of emptiness...
To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality,
To assert the emptiness of things, is to miss their reality.
The more you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth.
Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
To return to the root is to find meaning, to pursue appearances is to miss the source.
At the moments of inner enlightenment there is a going beyond appearance and emptiness.
The changes that appear to occur in the empty world, we call real only because of our ignorance.
Do not search for the truth. only seize to cherish opinions, do not remain in the dualistic state, avoid such pursuits carefully. 
If there is even a trace of this and that, of right and wrong, the mind essence will be lost in confusion.
Although all dualities comes from the one, do not be attached even to this one.
When the mind exist undisturbed in the way, nothing in the world can offend and when a thing can no onger offend, it cease to exist in the old way.
When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
When thought object vanish, the thinking subject vanishes as when the mind vanishes, objects vanishes.
Things are objects because of the subject, the mind, subject, is such because of things, objects.
Understand the relativity of these two and the basic reality, the unity of emptiness.
In this emptiness the two are indistinguishable and each contains in itself the whole world...
If you wish to move in the one way, do not dislike the  world of senses and ideas, indeed, to accept them fully is identical with enlightenment.
The wise man strives to no goals but the foolish man fetters himself...
To seek mind with a discriminating mind is the greatest mistake...

Adapted from the Hsin Hsin Ming ( Verses of the Faith Mind, aka The Book of Nothing). @ Youtube.
Xinxin Ming (alternate spellings Xin Xin Ming or Xinxinming) (Chinese: 信心銘; Hànyǔ Pīnyīn: Xìnxīn Míng; Wade–Giles: Hsin Hsin Ming; Japanese: Shinjinmei or Shinjin no Mei), Faith in mind, is a poem attributed to the Third Chinese Chán (Zen) Patriarch Jianzhi Sengcan 鑑智僧璨 (Hànyǔ Pīnyīn: Jiànzhì Sēngcàn; Wade–Giles: Chien .

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I stumbled upon this Zen literature while looking for something to read on Dogen's Shobogenzo and out of curiosity listened to this audio book instead. What an amazing coincident as I listened to it as though it was answering to my previous posts on the Heart Sutra. What a better way for a conclusion on the subject.of form and emptiness. Most of my writings has never been done from research and references

prior to my writing, it all comes straight out of my own perceptions mostly based on previous experiences. Sometimes when the subject matter is a little more serious and i have my doubts I would look for a formal support like in this case i was hoping the Zen master Dogen would have something nice to say about the subject but instead I found the Hsin Hsin Ming of the Third Zen Patriarch laying it all out for me, could not ask for more.
#Hsin Hsin Ming, Shobogenzo, Dogen, Heart Sutra. Zen.