About the verses

Inscribed on the Believing Mind

1:  The Perfect Way is not difficult

2:   A hairbreadth of difference

3:  To set what you like against what you dislike

4:  Do not labor to quiet your thoughts

5:  Perfect it is, like vast emptiness

6-8:  The Middle Way

9:  Banish words, banish thinking

10:  Return to the Source

11:  The shifting and changing in emptiness

12:  Do not seek the true

13-17:  Do not dwell in dual views

18:  Do not discriminate between coarse and refined

19:  The Great Way is open to all

20:  Letting go, it will happen spontaneously

21:  Be your natural self

22:  Have no aversions

23:  The sage does nothing

24:  The silkworm

25-26:  Gain and loss, right and wrong

27:  If the eye never sleeps

28-29:  The myriad things are of one suchness

30:  Unite motion and stillness

31-33:  This is Enlightenment

34-35:  No other, no self

36-37:  Beyond time and space

38-40:  Undivided is the Believing Mind