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  The space within is always there
  If you can moderate desire
  A place of utter emptiness
  And possibility entire

  2

  Where beautiful and ugly
  Do not stand in opposition
  Where life and death or yes and no
  Do not make a contradiction

  Can you see the vacant place
  Where good and bad and sad and merry
  Disappear forevermore?
  Where nothing ever is contrary

  So stay within the emptiness
  Unless you rise you never fall
  Accepting that which comes your way
  You are forever all in all

  3

  If you love accumulation
  Gain and increase every day
  Thieves and robbers will be waiting
  Just to take it all away

  Best to be so empty…headed
  That it seems you've lost it all
  You will know you're on the way
  Though others say you're at a stall

  4

  This nothingness is like a well
  Always giving; never taking
  And all claims to origin
  Neither wanting or forsaking

  You know it's ever present
  You find it where you have no face
  It is a wondrous blessing
  Original amazing grace

  5

  This emptiness is truly void
  And infinitely capacious
  It holds whatever comes its way
  Eternally tenacious

  Can you take whatever comes?
  Though judgment calls it bad and good
  Seeing is acceptance
  And nothing to be understood

  6

  Complete and full awareness
  Is like an open valley
  Of endless generation
  That doesn't reach finale

  It is a simple presence
  It's a nothing you can see
  You'll find it right at center
  Wherever you may be

  7

  This presence is unlimited
  Because it wasn't ever born
  And it will not be perishing
  Will never give you cause to mourn

  It truly wants for nothing
  It has no wishes of its own
  It is the one and only
  Eternally alone

  It holds itself in vacancy
  With no desire to advance
  Remaining in simplicity
  It merely witnesses the dance

  The seer will remain behind
  And never yearns for leaving home
  Just living in the here and now
  Prefers to stay unknown

  8

  The seer flows like water
  Lying low along the way
  Nourishing whatever comes
  To be held on display

  The seer keeps to simple ways
  And therefore is content
  When joy or sorrow manifests
  To give complete assent

  If you can clearly be yourself
  And never rise to interfere
  Everyone will cherish you
  And always hold you dear

  9

  Don't fill a bowl
  Till it's more than full
  Or sharpen a blade
  Till it must go dull

  Don't pile up treasure
  That comes at great cost
  Approval and riches
  Are easily lost

  Can you only do
  What's really needed
  Then stop and withdraw
  When your task is completed?

  10

  Can you see as a child sees
  And keep the simple vision?
  See the inner oneness
  With absolute precision

  Hold all things in your embrace
  The entire world is in your care
  Let things be just as they are
  Extend acceptance everywhere

  Let go all need to comprehend
  The truth is here where all behold
  Their infinite capacity
  To welcome and enfold

  11

  The empty hub at center
  Allows a wheel to roll
  The vacancy within defines
  The function of a bowl

  The openness within a house
  Provides location to reside
  The open space that is my heart
  Is where ten thousand things abide

  12

  Too much sound can make you deaf
  Too many colors leave you blind
  Can you let desire die down
  And not leave emptiness behind?

  Wanting things can drive you mad
  And acquisition makes you poor
  See that you are everything
  And leave off wanting more

  13

  Fame and shame are equal
  And so are gain and loss
  It isn't very difficult
  To get this point across

  Having fame you know that you
  Are terrified to lose it
  Making gain you always fear
  That others will abuse it

  Can you see that you're not like
  Your image or reflection?
  Just see you are totality
  By looking in your own direction

  The one who is not limited
  Accepts whatever comes or goes
  And cares for everything around
  On opening and close

  14

  When you look; it isn't there
  Listen and you cannot hear it
  It seems to be beyond your reach
  Because you are so near it

  This single source of everything
  Appears to be an empty image
  Though it cannot be understood
  You can see its naked visage

  Follow it to nothingness
  Approach it where you have no face
  From nowhere to infinity
  This vacant image leaves no trace

  From never to eternity
  This naked face is what you are
  An empty; vacant; open door
  Forevermore ajar

  15

  Those of old who knew the way
  To origin and source within
  Have seen the place where wholeness
  And infinity begin

  Alert as one on a frozen stream
  Or one who watches for the foe
  Deferential as a guest
  And generous as melting snow

  Plain as an uncarved block of wood
  Expansive as a vale
  Transparent just like water
  Whose clarity will never fail

  Can you keep yourself so still
  That muddy water clears?
  And wait until right action
  Spontaneously appears?

  16

  See that you are emptiness
  Always quiet and at peace
  You're in the place where all begins
  The space where all things cease

  All things arise and have their day
  And then go back to the single source
  Returning to serenity
  With no regret and no remorse

  When you see the source within
  You only give assent
  You see you're everlasting
  And eternally omnificent

  17

  It's best if you are barely known
  The lesser state is being praised
  Worse is being hated
  Just stay empty and amazed

  Only do what must be done
  And see you are the one alone
  When you finish all will say
  We did this on our own

  18

  Goodness and compliance
  Came when people lost the way
  Spontaneity declined
  Hypocrisy was here to stay

  19

  Banish learned discourse
  And everyone will be content
  Eliminate propriety
  Increase astonishment

  Stay away from fraud and swindle
  Everyone is bound to gain
  You really have it all you know
  There is no basis to complain

  Can you see your empty core?
  It isn't missing; gone or hidden
  Just let go of neediness
  And it will come unbidden

  20

  You need not give a yes or no
  Such distinctions matter little
  Keep your vision open
  And be at center noncommittal

  See that it's ridiculous
  To seek success and fear to fail
  To ever want what others want
  To think you always must prevail

  Other people look so bright
  I am dark and void and null
  Others are so very sharp
  While I alone am dull

  Others are so purposeful
  Only I don't understand
  Aimless; drifting; weak and dumb
  Uninteresting and bland

  I see I'm different from the rest
  For I take in what's plainly shown
  And I take my sustenance
  Only from the great unknown

  21

  Seeming utter emptiness
  Quite impossible to trace
  Yet it contains all images
  Within its wide embrace

  Appearing total darkness
  Yet you see that it is right
  To stay with its obscurity
  The only origin of light

  This ever present openness
  At center and within
  Can be seen just anytime
  So look and look again

  22

  Overcome by giving up
  See that you are really nil
  Look into your emptiness
  If you want to have your fill

  Be satisfied with little
  Just content with what you need
  If you are always wanting more
  You surely are consumed by greed

  Abide in your simplicity
  Though you are not on display
  See all things are shining bright
  In marvelous array

  If you do not

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