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for the Hall of Pure Bliss
By
seeking appearances and sounds 
One cannot truly find the Way.
The
deep source of realization
comes with constancy, bliss, self, and purity.
Its
purity is constant,
its bliss is myself.
The
two are mutually dependent,
like firewood and fire.
The
self's bliss is not exhausted,
constant purity has no end.
Deep
existence is beyond forms.
Wisdom illuminates the inside of the circle.
Inside
the circle the self vanishes,
neither existent nor nonexistent.
Intimately
conveying spiritual energy,
it subtly turns the mysterious pivot.
When
the mysterious pivot finds opportunity to turn,
the original light auspiciously
appears.
When
the mind's conditioning has not yet sprouted,
how can words and images be
distinguished?
Who
is it that can distinguish them?
Clearly understand and know by yourself.
Whole and inclusive
with inherent insight,
it is not concerned with discriminative thought.
When
discriminating thought is not involved,
it is like white reed flowers shining
in the snow.
One
beam of light's gleam
permeates the vastness.
The
gleam permeates through all directions,
from the beginning not covered or
concealed.
Catching
the opportunity to emerge,
amid transformations it flourishes.
Following
appropriately amid transformations,
the pure bliss is unchanged.
The
sky encompasses it, the ocean seals it,
every moment without deficiency.
In
the achievement without deficiency,
inside and outside are interfused.
All
dharmas transcend their limits,
all gates are wide open.
Through
the open gates
are the byways of playful wandering.
Dropping
off senses and sense objects is like
the flowers of our gazing and listening
falling away.
Gazing
and listening are only distant conditions
of thousands of hands and eyes.
The
others die from being too busy,
but I maintain continuity.
In
the wonder of continuity
are no traces of subtle identifications.
Within
purity is bliss,
within silence is illumination.
The
house of silent illumination
is the hall of pure bliss.
Dwelling
in peace and forgetting hardship,
let go of adornments and become genuine.
The
motto for becoming genuine:
nothing is gained by speaking.
The
goodness of Vimalakirti
enters the gate of nonduality.
By
Hongzhi Zhengiue (Wanshi Shogaku; 1091-1157)