If thine eye be single

[Confused]

I somehow feel that the singleness of eye has to do with knowing that it is not we who seek the ONE, but it is the ONE who seeks through us. In that sense, I liked the following -

Faith-Mind Sutra (Hsin Hsin Ming)
Seng Ts’an, 3rd Zen Patriarch
1.
Tao is self-evident to one with no preferences.
When like and dislike are absent, the Real is obvious and clear.
Make the slightest distinction, however,
and it appears disguised as heaven and earth.
2.
If you wish to know Source, hold no opinions.
To judge and choose is the disease of the mind.
When Truth goes un-observed, the mind roils with self-centered striving.
No good can come of this.
3.
Tao is immaculate, empty.
It lacks nothing, is nothing.
Desire and aversion blind you to Suchness.
4.
Do not become entangled in outer life,
nor indulge in feelings of detachment.
Serenely abide in what is,
and all such dualities disappear.
5.
When you impose stillness to stop activity,
stillness becomes an activity.
When you prefer one thing to another, you cannot abide in the One.
Not abiding in the One,
you are bound by both action and stillness.
6.
Seeing appearances as real, you miss the Source.
Seeing appearances as Void, you miss the show.
The more you talk and think, the further astray you wander.
Stop thinking and talking and All becomes known.
7.
Returning to Source, one finds refuge.
Pursuing appearances pulls you further away.
At the moment of Enlightenment, neither appearances nor emptiness are known.
Changes transpiring in an imaginary world are visible only to Ignorance.
Do not seek Truth. Just stop having opinions.
8.
Do not remain mired in the dual-natured world.
Avoid pursuing its offerings.
Distinguishing even a trace of right and wrong, of this and that,
roots the mind in confusion.
9.
The dual-natured world arises from One,
but do not cling to ideas of Oneness.
When the mind abides in Tao, the world cannot oppose it.
Without opposites, the world cannot exist.
10.
When discriminating thoughts cease to arise, the mind vanishes.
When the mind vanishes, the world is seen as unreal.
When the world is seen as unreal, the perceiver
of the world cannot be found.
11.
Objects appear as objects because the mind believes it is subject.
In truth, subject and object are not separate.
They arise as One from Emptiness and comprise the ten thousand things.
If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine,
how can preference and opinion arise?
12.
Abiding in Tao is neither difficult nor easy—it simply is.
But those with limiting beliefs, fearful and indecisive,
waver constantly between eagerness and hesitation.
The faster they hurry, the slower they go.
13.
There are no degrees of attachment.
Being attached even to the idea of Enlightenment preserves ignorance.
Just let things be as they are.
All is Here. There is no coming or going.
14.
Tao is your very Nature.
Seeing this, everything is clear—you walk free and undisturbed as Tao.
When you are tied to mind-thoughts, everything is murky, confusing.
The tiresome habit of judging saps energy, and makes peace of mind impossible.
What benefit is derived from imagining distinctions and separations?
15.
If you wish to abide in Tao, do not dislike the world you now experience.
Indeed, to see there is no difference between Tao and world
is Enlightenment itself.
The wise man expends no effort.
The foolish man ties himself in knots.
16.
Tao is singular, solitary, indivisible.
Distinctions are the imaginings of Ignorance.
To seek Truth in the endless maze of the discriminating mind
is a great mistake.
17.
Activity and stillness transpire only in illusion.
With Enlightenment there is nothing to like or dislike.
The dual-natured world is a seeming, an inference, a flowery dream in air.
How foolish to try to hold it.
Loss and gain, right and wrong, coarse and fine...
Let it all go.
18.
If the eye never sleeps, dreaming stops.
When the mind ceases to discriminate, the ten thousand things
are seen to be of one Suchness.
To fathom Suchness is to be released from bondage.
When all things are seen as One, the timeless Self is Real-ized.
This state cannot be described. No analogies are possible.
19.
When movement stops, there is no movement.
When there is no movement, there is nothing to stop.
Both movement and rest disappear.
Without such dualities, Oneness itself cannot exist.
Nothing can be said about this ultimate condition.
20.
When mind becomes Mind abiding in Tao, self-centered striving ceases.
Irresolution and doubt vanish. Life unfolds in Faith.
With a single stroke, bondage dissolves into freedom.
Nothing remains to hold on to.
21.
All is Void.
Empty, clear, self-illuminating—it makes no effort.
Thinking, feeling, imagining, knowing...
These things have no place Here.
In Suchness there is no self or other.
22.
To come into harmony with Suchness, see everything as “Not-Two.”
In Not-Two, nothing is separate, nothing left out.
In all places and times, Enlightenment means becoming this single Truth.
23.
The Real is not bound by time or space.
Nothing defines it as large or small.
A single thought spins ten thousand years.
The thoughts of ten thousand years occur in a single moment.
24.
Emptiness here, emptiness there, emptiness inside and out.
The Universe in all its totality is thus arrayed before you.
Boundaries and definitions do not exist.
Infinitely large, infinitely small—no difference.
So too with existence and non-existence.
Don’t waste time arguing, and denying the Real.
25.
The One is all things. All things are the One.
Make no distinctions as you move about and mingle.
When Enlightenment occurs, worries about attainment and perfection vanish.
The Real cannot be divided.
Faith-Mind and Source are Not-Two.
26.
Words! Tao is beyond words.
Yesterday never happened.
Tomorrow never will.
Today does not exist.
(Translated by Bart Marshall)

Source: http://newmoonmagazine.blogspot.com/2009...chive.html