Thanks for sharing this. The entire passage is pure gold.
I especially liked this section:
The Self is one. Unmoving, it moves faster than the mind. The senses lag, but Self runs ahead. Unmoving, it outruns pursuit. Out of Self comes the breath that is the life of all things.
Unmoving it moves; is far away, yet near; within all, outside of all.
Of a certainty the man who can see all creatures in himself, himself in all creatures, knows no sorrow.
Seems that atman and anatman converge at a fundamental level.
I agree it is a beautiful passage! It reminds me of something the third patriarch of Zen, Sengcan, once said,
"Emptiness here, emptiness there, but the infinite universe stands always before your eyes.
Infinitely large and infinitely small; no difference, for definitions have vanished and no boundaries are seen. So, too, with being and non-being. Don't waste time in doubts and arguments that have nothing to do with this. One thing, all things, move among and intermingle without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.
Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it, there is no yesterday, no tomorrow, no today."
Last Edit: Jun 14, 2024 4:23:45 GMT by White Lotus