mountain rivers flowing freely. Even if there is something offensive, it still
melts away all at once when you notice it. This is the great cycle.
12. Students ask about "living midnight." This is very subtle. If you insist
on defining it as true midnight, that would seem to be sticking to forms; but
if you do not focus on forms and do not point out true midnight, by what
means can the living midnight be known?
13. Once you know living midnight, there is definitely also true midnight.
Are they one or two, not true or not alive? It all requires you to see the real.
Once you see the real, everything is true, everything is alive. If your seeing
is not real, what is living, what is true?
14. As for living midnight, when you see it at all times, finally you reach
true midnight; your mood is clear and light, and living midnight gradually
blooms into ever-greater awareness.
15. At present, people do not yet clearly know the living; just test it out
when you head for the true, and the true will appear, while the living will be
sublime.
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XIII. Song to Inspire the World
