2026-03-15 | Dharma Talk | Meeting Trouble Together | Nate Smalley

Today's readings are from the Platform Sutra, by Huineng, including "The Gatha of Truth and Falsehood and Movement and Stillness": Nothing that exists is true don’t think what you see is true if you think you see the true what you see is surely false if you want to find the true the mind free of the false is true unless your mind forsakes the false nothing is true where true can’t be. Living things know how to move lifeless things stay still those who practice staying still resemble motionless lifeless things to see what truly doesn’t move in movement find what doesn’t move what doesn’t move is what doesn’t move lifeless things have no buddha seeds. If you can perceive its attributes the ultimate truth doesn’t move if you can realize this you will see how reality worksall you students of the Way be relentless and concentrate don’t stand at the entrance of the Mahayana clinging to views about birth and death. If those before you are ready tell them the Buddha’s teaching and if they aren’t truly ready bow and tell them to be good there’s nothing to argue about in this teaching those who argue lose sight of the Way clinging to blindness arguing about teachings they lead their nature into birth and death.