As I am reading my dharma book, I came across this passage:
When I have troubled in mind,
I try to recall Huike's encounter with Bodhidharma-
for he had trouble in mind too...
He asked the Master to ease his troubled heart.
And the Master asked that he find it for him to ease.
He could not find it...
And the Master exclaimed:
"There - I have just eased your heart!"
How fickle is this heart in reality!
It is mere attachment to this and that which troubles it.
And the troubles are formless, ever-changing.
Much of our inner torment is simply because we hang on,
giving the formless form.
Making "problems" concerete and brooding over them-
that could be the real problem!
Sometimes, we only have to let go to be free.
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