by Wu Hsin
For each of these instruments, themselves impermanent, subject to change, cannot possibly comprehend the permanent, the unchanging.
The Light of Life, the source of all that is, is I the unchanging.
When have you not been this I?
What can we know more certainly than our Self?
I-am-this-body is like an ash in your eye. It has impeded clear sight.
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What one is one cannot become.
If you believe that you cannot be what you are, then at least be what you have heard here.
Take this one fruit and extract every last drop of juice from it.
When this is done, the light by which darkness is known, the presence by which the absence of phenomena is discerned, will reveal itself.
Those who have understood the words of Wu Hsin need not return.
Those who have not understood likewise need not return.
Wu Hsin's work is finished.
Closing
Wu Hsin closes with this: Don’t mistakenly appropriate the knowledge you gain from reading this scroll, assuming that in doing so you understand the true nature of body and mind.
Only clear and direct insight can penetrate to that truth.
See that there is no "me" required for all the activities that are presently ongoing in the body. "Me" holds nothing together.
The person is only the pattern of thoughts and actions manifesting in and through a body.
Unknown to you, you have been the only obstacle. Seeing this, you have solved yourself.
You now live a genuine life, one of uncompromising fearlessness. It is typified by directionless, motiveless movement and balanced recklessness. In the end, one must go too far to discern how far one can go.
May Wu Hsin’s footprints leave indelible marks on your heart.