“Make your offering,” said the Master. “As you make it be pleased in mind. Make your mind completely calm and contented. Focus and fill the offering-mind with the giving. From this secure position you can be free from ill will.”
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Let your aims be common, and your hearts of one accord, and all of you be of one mind, so you may live well together.
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what’s more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard; never get muddled.
Mind is like an ocean - stormy at the surface, calmest in the depths.
