The man who is caught in ritual, perpetually repeating, calling on the name of God, and doing so-called good, is not a simple man. Then what is simplicity? The simple mind is the mind that transforms itself; the simple mind is the result of transformation. The mind that says, ‘I must be simple,’ is a stupid mind, but the mind that is aware of the extensiveness of its own deceptions, its own anxieties, its own illusions, aspirations and all the turmoil of desires, such a mind is simple. Being totally aware of all that, as one is aware of a tree or the heavens, there comes this extraordinary simplicity.

From Collected Works, Vol. 11

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