The past does not go, the present does not abide, and the future does not come. Sitting peacefully upright, letting things happen as they will—only then may you be called liberated.
前際無去，今際無住，後際無來，安然端坐，任運不拘，方名解脫。
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When all the Buddhas manifest themselves in the world, they proclaim nothing but the One Mind.
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