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  The seer's vast immensity
  Is truly less than minuscule

  40

  All is born of emptiness
  Manifests and has its day
  Then yields and surrenders
  Returns and dies away
  Commentary

  41

  When seers see their nothingness
  They never let it out of sight
  But others see it now and then
  And miss out on its true delight

  Still others only laugh it off
  And look at it with ridicule
  It wouldn't be the real truth
  If it weren't laughed at by the fool

  The brightest way seems darkness
  Just going on seems like retreat
  The simple way seems difficult
  Capacity seems like defeat

  Clarity can seem obscure
  And love seem not to care
  Totality seems not enough
  And truth can seem to err

  Awareness doesn't have a name
  To all appearances is null
  Yet it produces everything
  And so this empty place is full

  42

  Awareness comes from nothingness
  So all can see it's plainly one
  Contains all opposition
  Ten thousand things are now begun

  All these things embrace the void
  And face the manifest
  Achieving thus true harmony
  They find existence truly blessed

  No one wants to be considered
  Empty and alone
  Yet that's exactly what the seers
  Say they have been shown

  And violence is not the way
  I give you this instruction
  Those who live by violence
  Will bring about their own destruction

  43

  Overcome by yielding
  The weak can overcome the strong
  For only absence can provide
  The place where everything belongs

  And thus it is that I can see
  The worthiness of not contending
  Yet few will ever comprehend
  The potency of bending

  44

  Which of these means more to you
  Integrity or reputation?
  Are gain and loss not equally
  Responsible for limitation?

  Everything that you possess
  Is surely transitory
  Just be pleased with emptiness
  And witness inner bliss and glory

  You know that your are always safe
  If only you can be contented
  With awareness as capacity
  And with all that is presented

  45

  Wholeness seems like imperfection
  Yet its usefulness is sure
  Fullness seems quite empty
  But it is certain to endure

  True straightness can seem twisted
  True wisdom does not seem to know
  Great eloquence seems halting
  Great darkness seems to be aglow

  Can you see that emptiness
  Contains all oppositions?
  Like hot and cold and fast and slow?
  All differences and all conditions?

  46

  When the absolute is cherished
  Horses graze on the open green
  When the absolute is lost
  Only steeds of war are seen

  No calamity exceeds desire
  And always wanting more
  Can you not see you have enough
  And live in plenitude galore?

  47

  No need to go outside a door
  To see totality
  Or look out of a window
  For seeing what will always be

  Going out you go astray
  At home and center all is one
  The seer doesn't have to do
  To see that everything is done

  48

  In going after learning
  Something's added every day
  For resting in the ultimate
  Everything must drop away

  Day by day do less and less
  Until nothingness is seen
  All occurs quite on its own
  A doer need not intervene

  Allow all things to run their course
  If you want to be proficient
  Make a fuss and bother
  And existence will be insufficient

  49

  The seer doesn't own a thought
  For thoughts do not reside within
  Thoughts concern ten thousand things
  And that's the way it's always been

  The seer doesn't rush to judge
  And treats all people well
  Considers no one bad or good
  Attracts but never does repel

  The seer trusts things as they are
  And takes all people at their word
  Giving trust to everyone
  Knows faithfulness will be returned

  The seer turns your view around
  So you can never be beguiled
  And gives you back all that you lost
  The vision of a little child

  50

  Between the time when they are born
  And the time that they will die
  Three in ten will follow life
  Three others only will deny

  Three others are so casual
  They live as though they're passing through
  But one remains who clearly sees
  There's not a single thing to do

  Can you be like the one who sees
  The world emerging on its own?
  What's needed for each moment
  Arises from the great unknown

  This one doesn't have a fear
  Of weaponry or wild beast
  These enemies can't harm the one
  Whose separate self is long deceased

  51

  Everything arises
  From this total emptiness
  Is nourished and completed
  And finds creation blessed

  All things arise from nothingness
  Are cared for by existence
  Which freely gives what is required
  For bountiful subsistence

  Existence does not make a claim
  On what it has created
  It nourishes and serves and leads
  Is honored and appreciated

  52

  All things emerge from nullity
  The only derivation
  Of everything that manifests
  The source of all creation

  Stay in touch with origin
  There's nothing that you need deny
  Seeing your totality
  You will not fear to die

  Do not be in haste to speak
  And always guard the senses
  You will find your heart at peace
  And in the place where all commences

  See the subtle and the clear
  It is the empty source of light
  There is no danger in this place
  That is forever in plain sight

  53

  This way is wide and easy
  Yet people love to stray
  They love to take the sidetracks
  And wander from the way

  When the few are rich and wealthy
  Living way above their needs
  The granaries are empty
  And the fields are full of weeds

  When rulers spend on weapons
  And implements of war
  It's a never ending circle
  Of ever wanting more

  When the rich have all abundance
  What remains must surely dwindle
  Having more than you can use
  Is thievery and fraud and swindle

  54

  Hold fast to this awareness
  Seeing that it is your root
  It will not ever slip away
  This ever present absolute

  It cannot be uprooted
  It's always held in veneration
  Discovered very close at hand
  In every generation

  Allow its presence in your life
  Awareness real and profound
  Allow it in the family
  Its blessings will abound

  And if you care to share it
  With neighbor and with friend
  Its potency will multiply
  With benefits that never end

  You ask me how I know it's true
  It isn't something I mistook
  Well nothing is more obvious
  The only thing I do is look

  55

  One who sees full emptiness
  Is like a child just born
  With muscles weak and bones so soft
  Yet with a grip that's strong

  The newborn hasn't been fulfilled
  Its nature is pure vacancy
  Nullity and nothingness
  And potent spontaneity

  It can scream and cry all day
  And yet it never does get hoarse
  It only does what naturally
  Emerges from the inner source

  To see this inner nature
  Is seeing in a way that's bold
  Into the only place there is
  That cannot possibly grow old

  56

  Those who know don't like to say
  Those who say don't know
  Close the mouth and guard the senses
  You'll see more than what's on show

  Untie tangles; dim the glare
  Dull the sharp and join the dust
  Abide in primal unity
  And then do what you must

  You cannot hold it or let go
  It can't be blamed or praised
  In all…embracing oneness
  Be astonished and amazed

  57

  To truly lead with fairness
  You must put aside control
  Abandon imposition
  Make spontaneity your goal

  The more you try to run their lives
  With rules and prohibition
  The poorer people's lives become
  The

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