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The Ultimate Attainment

3/28/2007 in Quotes by Barefoot Pete

The past is already past.
Don’t try to regain it.
The present does not stay.
Don’t try to touch it from moment to moment.
The future is not come; don’t think about it beforehand.
Whatever comes to the eye, leave it be.
There are no commandments to be kept, there’s no filth to be cleansed.
With empty mind really penetrated, the dharmas have no life.
When you can be like this you’ve completed the ultimate attainment.

— Layman P’ang