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In Chan Buddhism

Additionally, ziran can be found in the famous Xinxin Ming (Faith-Mind Inscription), a text which bears a close similarity to the Xin Ming (Mind Inscription). According to Dusan Pajin, this work contains influences from Taoism. For example, he notes the inclusion in the text of the term ziran, which Pajin says "has a completely Taoist meaning." Pajin writes that this aligns with the Chan tendency, influenced by Taoism, "to stress spontaneity, at the expense of rules, or discipline." The Xinxin Ming says, "The essence of the Great Way is spaciousness / It is neither easy nor difficult / Small views of foxy doubts / Are too hasty or too late / Attach to them, the measure will be lost / Certain to enter on a deviant path / Letting go of them, it goes naturally." Although the Xinxin Ming is traditionally attributed to the third Chan patriarch Sengcan (d. 606?), this is not taken seriously by scholarship, and both it and the slightly earlier Xin Ming have been associated with the Oxhead School. Both are likely products of the eighth or early ninth century.