Practitioners Should Not Be Too Attached to Worldly Dharmas

In studying Buddhism and cultivating the path, we study the dharma of no-marks; the mind must gradually detach from the mundane world. Only when the mind departs from worldliness and from marks can it gradually attain purity and nonaction (asaṃskṛta), corresponding with the unconditioned dharmas that transcend the world. If even the most ordinary festival in the mundane world makes us care about it and go along with the crowd, with our minds tightly bound to worldly affairs, how can we attain liberation without learning to take things more lightly? Worldly people are unbearably vulgar, while practitioners must ultimately transcend the ordinary and rise above worldliness. Therefore, we must not cling too closely to worldly dharmas, sinking deep into the mundane world without knowing how to pull ourselves out, running contrary to the Path—when would we ever be able to walk the great road of liberation?