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Search for Truth |
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CHAPTER 25 |
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A laugh and a sigh, |
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Different to the ears. |
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Smiling and crying faces, |
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Different in the eyes. |
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A world filled with miseries, |
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But laughter it contains. |
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By Truth, all things have opposite facets. |
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CHE FATT |
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Coming up with the Truth for all |
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Holding onto the opposite, evil attacks
the mind |
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End this illusion and turn back- |
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Fast as the wind may carry |
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Attendance marks in the right land |
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Time to purify and begin work |
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Take it up at this very minute and begin. |
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One may find that things are sometimes hard to believe. |
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For since the ABOVE is so great, why not make a Buddha out |
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of man? All men are Buddhas and they have the seed, but the |
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seed has not taken root and that is why men are not Buddhas. |
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If one wishes the seed to take root, work hard at it. |
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Cultivate the right seed. From teaching to teaching, all |
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are the same. Concentrate on the one you know best. Knowing |
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where the seed is, plant it in the right soil. Look after it |
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well and let it bloom. Bloom into something that man will |
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not believe. |
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LEE SIOW YUEN CULTIVATION OF HEART |
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Living in a world of illusion |
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Entering into a stage of blankness |
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Ending in the loss of identity |
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Search and seek its return |
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Island of refuge you must be |
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Only by being your own island |
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Wander no more in search of it |
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Yesterday the root has taken place |
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Use the right method to cultivate |
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Ensure that all will gain together |
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Never leave one behind to suffer |
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Change the attitude of mind, tune it
right |
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Using all possibilities, begin the Search |
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Learning from someone to begin with |
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Take on the task as one realizes |
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Into the realization stage, one will see |
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Victory for the man who conquers himself |
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Attain with the Search and realize |
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Towards the goal for all beings |
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Ideas of cultivation must begin |
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Open up the Path with landmark to guide |
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Netting all in, together one survives |
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Omit the past deeds for right |
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Future fruits depend on the seeds |
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Hold onto purity and seek |
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Erase all human problems |
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Amending each other's wrongs |
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Result in the cultivation of the heart |
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Take up the Search and a new life is
seen. |
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BODHIDARMA CULTIVATION |
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Being able to spread the essence |
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Only through speeches made |
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Dealing with people, I use the
'heart-speech' |
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Hoping all to gain, I simplify it |
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Ideas spread from one to another |
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Do it, why not you |
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Action and speech combine as one |
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Remain in the same frequency as the heart |
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Make the right move; all should start |
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Attend to it now, take on the task. |
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Create the right atmosphere to begin with |
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Use the right speech to teach |
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Learn not from books but from realization |
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Then begin teaching without any note |
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In this stage of attainment |
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Vices you will overcome |
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Arise then and continue your search |
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Try for the opposite Shore too |
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In the work, calmness one will feel |
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Open up all doors for man |
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Never will one fall back again. |
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Ha! Ha! |
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BEGIN from the lower step |
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NOW is the time for all |
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TO do or not to do |
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CULTIVATION is up to you. |
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Ha! Ha! |
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