Purity of Heart
Someone who wants purity
and thinks to find it by gazing
at the pure
might say,
“I see something pure
excellent free of decay.
Seeing it purifies me.”
If seeing
or some intellectual process
could rid you of pain
the purifying agent would be
outside you
and you’d be left still eager to grasp.
This view describes
a grasping person
not any path to purity.
Anyone who’s free
denies there’s liberation
by another
or by what she sees
and hears,
by rules of morality,
rites and rituals
or through what
she thinks.
Neither good
nor evil affect her.
She’s given up
the grasping self.
Her action now
is neither good
nor bad.
If you abandon
one thing
just to cling to
another
you’ll never
free yourself.
You’re like
a monkey
letting go of
one branch,
grasping another.
You immerse yourself
in religious practices,
favour certain ways
of seeing things
and go up
and down.
The wise one sees
the way things are
through insight,
no longer swings
from high to low.
You need not defend yourself
against anything you see,
hear, touch, taste,
smell or think
Who can define you?
You live so openly.
You take
no theoretical position,
claiming it
as the ultimate.
All things are equal.
You’ve disentangled
the knot that used to bind you.
No longing now
for anything in the world.
You’re free.
You’ve understood
the way things are.
There’s nothing
you would grasp.
You’ve gone beyond
all limitations,
have no taste for desire
or its absence.
There’s nothing left to do.
Purity of Heart
Someone who wants purity
and thinks to find it by gazing
at the pure
might say,
“I see something pure
excellent free of decay.
Seeing it purifies me.”
If seeing
or some intellectual process
could rid you of pain
the purifying agent would be
outside you
and you’d be left still eager to grasp.
This view describes
a grasping person
not any path to purity.
Anyone who’s free
denies there’s liberation
by another
or by what she sees
and hears,
by rules of morality,
rites and rituals
or through what
she thinks.
Neither good
nor evil affect her.
She’s given up
the grasping self.
Her action now
is neither good
nor bad.
If you abandon
one thing
just to cling to
another
you’ll never
free yourself.
You’re like
a monkey
letting go of
one branch,
grasping another.
You immerse yourself
in religious practices,
favour certain ways
of seeing things
and go up
and down.
The wise one sees
the way things are
through insight,
no longer swings
from high to low.
You need not defend yourself
against anything you see,
hear, touch, taste,
smell or think
Who can define you?
You live so openly.
You take
no theoretical position,
claiming it
as the ultimate.
All things are equal.
You’ve disentangled
the knot that used to bind you.
No longing now
for anything in the world.
You’re free.
You’ve understood
the way things are.
There’s nothing
you would grasp.
You’ve gone beyond
all limitations,
have no taste for desire
or its absence.
There’s nothing left to do.
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