1. So long as you feel that there is trauma or, in any case, acute psychological suffering, you’d do well to seek out healing.

2. So long as you feel that there’s a lot of psychological stuff to clean up, you’d do well to clean up.

3. However, there comes a time when an insight dawns on you: your innate nature is beyond trauma and healing, beyond stains and cleanliness, beyond problems and solutions, beyond this and that.

4. This insight is clearly stated in Huineng’s great Zen poem:

Bodhi originally has no tree,

The mirror(-like mind) has no stand.

Buddha-nature (emptiness/oneness) is always clean and pure;

Where is there room for dust (to alight)?

5. When you go directly to your original nature, you don’t find that it’s clean or pure, unclean or impure, dusty or dust-free. You don’t find anything (that is, any thing). And you don’t find that “went anywhere” to “go to” your original nature.

6. You don’t have to do anything, ultimately, to be your original nature. You don’t have to be good; you don’t have to attain something; you don’t need to stop this or that activity. There’s only a falling back into your original nature. In fact, there’s only being your original nature. There’s only original nature being original nature.

7. As original nature, it is nameless. So, there’s only the knowing silence.