Beyond the Misty Mountains

The Perfect Way is only difficult
        for those who pick and choose;
Do not like, do not dislike;
        all will then be clear.
Make a hairbreadth difference,
        and Heaven and Earth are set apart;
If you want the truth to stand clear before you,
        never be for or against.
The struggle between “for” and “against”
        is the mind’s worst disease.

Sent-ts’an
Zen Master
700 CE