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  Though you are not on display
  See all things are shining bright
  In marvelous array

  If you do not boast or brag
  Everyone will hold you high
  If you do not argue
  You will prevail thereby

  Only see you are complete
  And all things have come to you
  Overcome by giving up
  All except your inner view

  23

  Say your piece and then be still
  Like nature in a storm
  That rains and blows and ceases
  And sees the sun reborn

  Open to the inward view
  You are at one with all existence
  There's nothing blocking up the way
  Or putting up resistance

  If you're at home with nothingness
  And simply trust what comes about
  You'll find that all is in its place
  Without a question or a doubt

  24

  Who stands on tiptoe topples
  Who runs ahead soon looses speed
  Who goes on show is hidden
  Who pushes far gives up the lead

  Don't depart from what is given
  The ever present here and now
  Don't overreach and don't oppose
  Invite; admire and allow

  25

  Before creation did occur
  This blessed emptiness was here
  Alone forever and at peace
  The source of all that does appear

  Eternally unchanging
  Forever lacking limit
  This void is all potential
  The everlasting ultimate

  It flows through all existence
  And then returns to source
  It's ever at your center
  Your only true recourse

  For here begins the universe
  The earth and humankind
  Following this greatest way
  You can never be defined

  26

  The naked center doesn't change
  Its quietude is absolute
  Yet from it spring all things that move
  This bare awareness is the root

  Can you go about all day
  And never leave your true abode
  No matter how enticing are
  The splendors of the road?

  Don't think that you can run around
  And act a perfect fool
  Just see that you are at the eye
  Of nature's whirlpool

  27

  Can you walk and leave no tracks?
  Make no errors when you talk?
  Count without a tally?
  Secure a door without a lock?

  You can abandon no one
  There's nothing you can leave behind
  In you there are no limits
  You are forever unconfined

  What happens is spontaneous
  Good and bad are just the same
  In origin identical
  Beyond both praise and blame

  28

  Know the strong but keep the weak
  The whole wide world is born in you
  You'll see just what a child sees
  A vast and comprehensive view

  Know the light but keep the dark
  And watch ten thousand things emerge
  In you they have their residence
  Where space and time converge

  Know the high but keep the low
  Humility will honor you
  Attend to your vacuity
  There's nothing else to do

  Be like an uncarved block of wood
  Don't squander your potential
  Or overlook your vacant core
  Nothing else is so essential

  29

  Do you want to change the world?
  You cannot possibly succeed
  The given cannot be improved
  On this the seers are agreed

  At times you find you're out in front
  At other times you fall behind

  Sometimes you're all commotion
  But afterwards you must unwind

  When all around is turmoil
  Just stay with the serene
  You are the quiet center
  Of the ever changing scene

  Can you see things as they are
  And let them be all on their own?
  Remain in pure awareness
  You never need to stray from home

  30

  There is an ancient way to lead
  That just allows and does not force
  For what goes out will come around
  And violence will lead to wars

  The one who sees completes a task
  And stops when it is done
  Seeing all is on its own
  And not controlled by anyone

  The seer sees that all is well
  And does not need to please
  Just gives acceptance everywhere
  Puts everyone at ease

  31

  Weapons lead to violence
  Which everyone despises
  Avoid them altogether
  Allow no compromises

  If use of weapons has to be
  When enemies just leave no choice
  Use them but reluctantly
  In victory do not rejoice

  Ascendancy brings sorrow
  And triumph doesn't carry pleasure
  It severs you from wholeness
  And robs you of your real treasure

  Victory is like a funeral
  Where loss of life must make you sad
  For putting other people down
  Never ought to make you glad

  32

  Awareness is not limited
  It's like an uncarved block of wood
  With infinite potential
  Beyond all usefulness for good

  If leaders could stay centered
  In awareness pure and plain
  This world would be as nourishing
  As nature's gentle rain

  Everyone would be at peace
  And always living in the whole
  Opposition and division
  Could never take their toll

  33

  It may be said that you are wise
  To see yourself as others do
  But you are wiser still to see
  From your own central point of view

  Then you see you have it all
  The riches that are always here
  Belong to you completely
  Because your vision is so clear

  34

  The empty center's everywhere
  It flows both left and right
  It brings to pass ten thousand things
  And yet it never leaves your sight

  It welcomes everything around
  On nothing does it make a claim
  It's in the heart of each and all
  This ultimate without a name

  Some can see that it is great
  And some will say that it's obscure
  It is your real identity
  Simplicity that will endure

  35

  Totality will be with you
  If you can see the simple presence
  Although there's danger all around
  You give complete acceptance

  Good music; food and company
  Are welcome when you're traveling
  The inner truth seems tasteless
  Yet it produces everything

  You look and you see nothing
  You listen and hear silence
  Its use is inexhaustible
  It's ever worthy of reliance

  36

  You cannot be diminished
  Unless you've been inflated
  You cannot be defeated
  Unless you've been elated

  You cannot be belittled
  Unless you've been esteemed
  Unless you're wholly missing
  You cannot be redeemed

  The soft and slow can overcome
  The rigid and the hard and fast
  Just see your inner emptiness
  For nothing else is made to last

  37

  Only see you're doing nothing
  Yet not a thing is left undone
  For all things happen on their own
  In you who are the all in one

  If leaders could be centered
  All ten thousand things would thrive
  By seeing what is natural
  All creation comes alive

  Everyone would be content
  With living simply every day
  Desires would be moderate
  And peace would be the only way

  38

  You needn't search for power
  You already have it all
  To seek outside your empty core
  Is looking for a fall

  The seer doesn't do a thing
  But sees that all is finished
  Foolish people run about
  And leave totality diminished

  Goodness must be doing
  And justice never is complete
  Propriety can't satisfy
  Obedience is forced defeat

  When totality is lost
  Goodness comes to take its place
  Followed by propriety
  Bewilderment and end of grace

  The seer sees periphery
  But also sees the open core
  And thus the seer sees the whole
  And dwells therein forevermore

  39

  If you stay with clear awareness
  The sky is open; pure and spacious
  The earth is firm and friendly too
  Activity is efficacious

  But depart from clarity
  The purest sky is torn apart
  The earth is so divided
  Felicity must flee your heart

  The seer knows humility
  Doesn't argue or cajole
  Doesn't discard anything
  Or mutilate the whole

  The seer doesn't show at all
  Doesn't sparkle like a jewel
  The seer's vast immensity
  Is truly less than minuscule

  40

  All i

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