景德傳燈錄 29.28

29.28

Sentient beings do not understand how to cultivate the Way, / And so they wish to sever afflictions. / Afflictions are fundamentally empty and tranquil; / Taking the Way, they further wish to seek the Way. / The mind of a single thought is itself it; / Why search and investigate elsewhere? / The Great Way is clearly right before your eyes, / Yet deluded, foolish people do not understand. / Buddha-nature is naturally spontaneous, / Neither cultivated nor constructed through causes and conditions. / Not recognizing that the three poisons are unreal, / They falsely grasp at floating, sinking, birth, and old age. / In the past, taking the days of delusion as late, / Today, first awakening, it is still not early.