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.
It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
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