The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that simplicity and clarity in life come from being free of attachments and desires.
Sengcan's quote highlights the importance of letting go of personal preferences, attachments, and biases in order to follow the 'Great Way' or the path of enlightenment and wisdom. When individuals are not burdened by their own desires and judgments, they can navigate life with greater ease and clarity, embracing the present moment and the experiences it brings.
In practice
In a meditation class, to explain the importance of letting go of attachments.
One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
Return to the root and you will find the meaning.
When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?
Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go.
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.
My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity.
If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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