至道无难The Great Way is not difficult

唯嫌拣择for those who hold no preferences.

但莫憎爱When longing and aversion are both absent,

洞然明白everything becomes clear and undisguised.

毫厘有差Make the smallest distinction, however,

天地悬隔and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

欲得现前If you wish to see the truth

莫存顺逆then hold no opinion for or against.

违顺相争The struggle of likes and dislikes

是为心病is the disease of the mind.

不识玄旨When the deep meaning of things is not understood,

徒劳念静the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail.

圆同太虚The Way is perfect like vast space,

无欠无余where nothing is lacking and nothing is extra.

良由取舍Indeed, it is due to our choosing or rejecting

所以不如that we do not see thus.

莫逐有縁Live neither in entanglement with things,

勿住空忍nor passively in emptiness.

一种平怀Be serene without striving activity in the oneness of things,

泯然自尽and such erroneous views will disappear by themselves.

止动归止When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity,

止更弥动your very effort fills you with activity.

唯滞两边As long as you remain in one extreme or the other,

宁知一种you will never know oneness.

一种不通Those who do not live in the single Way

两处失功fail in both activity and passivity, assertion and denial.

遣有没有To deny the existence of things is to get stuck in existence;

从空背空to assert the emptiness of things is to turn away from emptiness.

多言多虑The more you talk and think about it,

转不相应the further astray you wander from the truth.

绝言绝虑Stop talking and thinking,

无处不通and there is nothing you will not be able to know.

归根得旨To return to the root is to find the meaning,

随照失宗but to pursue appearances is to miss the source.

须臾返照At the moment of turning the light of awareness around,

胜却前空there is a going beyond appearance and emptiness.

前空转变The changes that appear to occur in the empty world

皆由妄见we call real only because of ignorance.

不用求真Do not search for the truth;

唯须息见only cease to hold opinions.

二见不住Dualistic constructs do not abide,

慎莫追寻so take care not to pursue them.

才有是非If there is even a trace of this and that, right and wrong,

纷然失心the mind will be lost in confusion.

二由一有Although all dualities come from the one,

一亦莫守do not be attached even to this one.

一心不生When the one mind is unborn,

万法无咎nothing in the world can offend,

无咎无法and when a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist in the old way.

不生不心When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.

能随境灭When thought objects vanish, the thinker vanishes,

境逐能沉and when the thinker vanishes, objects vanish.

境由能境Objects are objects because of the subject;

能由境能The subject is subject because of objects.

欲知两段If you wish to understand these two,

元是一空originally they are one emptiness.

一空同两In this one emptiness, the two are inseparable,

齐含万象equally containing myriad images.

不见精粗If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine,

宁有偏党you will not give rise to prejudice.

大道体宽To live in the Great Way

无易无难is neither easy nor difficult,

小见狐疑but those with limited views are fearful and doubting:

转急转迟the faster they hurry, the slower they go.

执之失度In attachment balance is lost,

必入邪路and they surely enter the wrong path.

放之自然Just let things be in their own way,

体无去住and the whole will neither go nor abide.

任性合道Accept your nature and accord with the Way,

逍遥绝恼and you will walk freely and undisturbed.

繋念乖真When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden,

昏沉不好for everything is murky and unclear,

不好劳神and unclarity brings annoyance and weariness.

何用疏亲What's the use of making distinctions and separations?

欲取一乘If you wish to enter the One Vehicle,

勿恶六尘do not disdain the six senses.

六尘不恶The six senses not being disdained

还同正觉is the same as true awakening.

智者无为The wise have nothing to do,

愚人自缚but the foolish bind themselves.

法无异法There is one Dharma, not many;

妄自爱着it's foolish to long for anything.

将心用心To seek mind with mind

岂非大错is the greatest of all mistakes.

迷生寂乱Rest and unrest derive from illusion;

悟无好恶in enlightenment there is no good and bad.

一切二边All dualities come from

妄自斟酌false deliberation;

梦幻虚华they are like dreams of flowers in the sky:

何劳把捉why try to grasp them?

得失是非Gain and loss, right and wrong:

一时放却let them go at once.

眼若不睡If the eye never sleeps,

诸梦自除all dreams will naturally cease.

心若不异If the mind makes no discriminations,

万法一如the myriad things are one suchness.

一如体玄One suchness embodies the mystery,

兀尔忘虚released from all entanglements.

万法齐观When all things are seen equally,

归复自然they return to themselves.

泯其所以In this causeless, relationless state

不可方比no comparisons or analogies are possible.

止动无动In rest or movement, nothing moves;

动止无止in movement or rest, nothing rests.

两既不成When such dualities cease to exist,

一何有尔oneness itself cannot exist.

究竟穷极To this ultimate finality

不存轨则no law or description applies.

契心平等For the unified peaceful mind,

所作俱息all self-centered striving ceases.

狐疑尽净Doubts completely vanish

正信调直and a life of true trust is possible.

一切不留With a single stroke we are freed from fixation;

无可记忆nothing clings to us and we hold to nothing.

虚明自照All is empty, clear, and self-illuminating,

不劳心力with no exertion of the mind's power.

非思量处Here thought, feeling,

识情难测knowledge, and imagination are of no value.

真如法界In this world of suchness

无他无自there is neither self nor other

要急相应To come directly into harmony with this reality

唯言不二just simply say, 'nondual.'

不二皆同In this nonduality nothing is separate,

无不包容nothing excluded.

十方智者All wise ones everywhere

皆入此宗enter this source,

宗非促延and this source is beyond hurry or delay;

一念万年a single thought is ten thousand years.

无在不在Here and not here do not apply;

十方目前the infinite universe stands always before your eyes.

极小同大Infinitely large and infinitely small; no difference,

忘绝境界for definitions have vanished.

极大同小Infinitely small and infinitely large;

不见边表no boundaries are seen.

有即是无Being itself is non-being,

无即是有and non-being is itself being.

若不如此Don't waste time in doubts and arguments

必不相守that have nothing to do with this.

一即一切One is all,

一切即一all is one, without distinction.

但能如是To just be thus

何虑不毕is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.

信心不二The trusting mind is without duality,

不二信心Nonduality is the trusting mind.

言语道断Here the way of words is cut,

非去来今without past, future, or present.