至道無難     The Perfect Way is not difficult

唯嫌揀擇     Save that it excludes picking and choosing

但憎莫愛     Once you are freed from hating and loving

洞然明白     That which  is hidden will become clear and bright

Look therefore at that which is hidden from thee and see from today henceforth:
Lo, the way to travel is before thee; forget not thy departing.
Choose not the life of this body before eternal life:
put the fear of God in they heart and thou shalt live without toil.
Psalm CCLXV (MPB)

And Yahwe Elohim commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat
But of the tree of the knowledge of good (טוֹב) and evil (רָע) thou shalt not eat of it;
For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.  (Genesis 2)

What is the cause of good and evil?
The body is the cause.
What is the cause of the body?
Craving is the cause. – The Vimalakirti Sutra

Case 23  Think Neither Good Nor Evil

The Sixth Patriarch was pursued by the monk Ming (a former general of the third rank and a coarse and violent man) as far as Taiyu Mountain.
The patriarch, seeing Ming coming, laid the robe and bowl on a rock and said, “This robe is a symbol of the faith, not something to be fought over. If you want it, take it now.”

Ming tried to move it, but it was as heavy as a mountain and would not budge. Faltering and trembling, he cried out, “I came for the Dharma, not for the robe. I beg you, please give me your instruction.”

The patriarch said, “Think neither good nor evil. At this very moment, what is the original self of the monk Ming?”

At these words, Ming was directly illuminated. (The Gateless Gate)

Meister Eckhart:

He who loves God ought to deny himself, get rid of whatever he possesses, love his neighbor as himself, and to be so conformed to the divine will that he wants whatever God wants, and equally this and that; for if [he wants] unequally, then no longer does he love only God or God’s will, or God in all things, or all things in God.  (Blakney, “The Defense”)

Lexicon-Concordance Online Bible (http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/7451.html) (http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/2896.html)

Blakney, Raymond B. (1941). Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation. New York: Harper & Row. (Internet Archive)