Beyond Labels: The Heart's Way

I have spoken of the plank in your own eye. 

You ask now of forms and labels, but I say to you: the Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

You speak of 'man' or 'woman,' 'this' or 'that.' 

These are but distinctions. 

Make the smallest distinction, however, and you are as far from the Way as heaven is from earth. 

To long for one and avert from another, to like and dislike: this is the disease of the mind.

Look not to the changing form; look to the heart. 

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 

The Inner Kingdom is not found in being one thing or another, but in ceasing to cherish opinions.

Therefore, do not lay up for yourselves treasures in these words and labels, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 

First, remove the plank of judgment from your own eye; only then will you see clearly. 

Know that the Way itself is beyond all language.