Discard Early

Yutang Lin

With interest and leisure things might be treasured;
Lack of energy or usage anything can be discarded.
Burdened by accumulation, open clarity is obscure.
Expel worldly views early to help attain awakening.

Comment:

The value of things varies with feelings and situations. Accumulation of useless items forms a mental burden. Sort and clean out now and then to give body and mind some open clarity. That practitioners should clean up all sorts of grasping is for a similar reason.

Written in Chinese and translated on March 30, 2003
El Cerrito, California

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