Excerpt from "hsin hsin ming" by Sengtsan

"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. When the deep meaning of things is not understood the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail. ... Do not search for the truth' only cease to cherish opinions." Sengstan from the year ~606 A.D. The third Chinese patriarch of Zen, a wandering monk during the persecution of Buddhism in China. "hsing hsing ming" is perhaps the first Chinese Zen document.