Zhuangzi · An Ordinary Mind Is the Way

Zhuangzi · An Ordinary Mind Is the Way
When the heart feels incomplete, it seeks outward: greed, anger, and delusion; karmic obstructions and obsessive attachment; a vicious cycle.
My original being is inherently pure, possessed of innate wholeness. With no ego and no attachment, I do not seek outward; without desire or demand, I am free of worry and care.
The heart is always stirring, always unsettled. Circumstances are unsettled, and we invite further unrest. Forcing things to settle only unsettles them; applying effort already misses the mark. There is no contrived action, no exercise of power.
The piping of Heaven is silent; human hearts are unsettled. Air blows through openings, and human piping fills the air with clamor. Even the Way cannot persuade people, much less can human intervention. The Great Way is not proclaimed; great disputation is wordless. People do not look for their reflection in flowing water, but in still water. Do not try to persuade people.
Stupidity, falsity, evil, and ugliness are not products of individual will; understood through historical materialism, they are natural disasters. To suffer harm and respond with anger and hostility is to let karmic obstructions spread. Respond ordinarily, as grass yields to the wind. With a calm heart and an even temper, flow naturally.
Circumstances change with the heart. When the heart is ordinary, circumstances are ordinary too. The ordinary is complete: follow nature and be one with the Way.
Appendix:

1. Wang Anshi: I have read ten thousand volumes and learned every principle under Heaven. The wise already understand for themselves; among the foolish, who will believe you? How remarkable, the leisurely man of the Way, who leaps beyond the confines of the three phrases. He awakens on his own to his very root; it does not arise from elsewhere.
2. In the first few years after I began turning toward Marx and Zhuangzi in 2020, my heart was not ordinary, what I sought was not ordinary, what I clung to was not ordinary, and I also invited the extraordinary. Yet truly practicing Marx and Zhuangzi inevitably leads toward an ordinary mind. , the anxiety of guiding others