p12:

The full/​complete official practice-ish: "Don't try to change anything, including not trying to not try to change things. [Neither try to prevent change/​happening/​etc., nor try to not prevent change, and so on.]" [sic]

Broken down a little bit and phrased a little bit differently:

Try to let things be and happen and change as they are without [you yourself] trying to make anything different in each moment, and the next. If you find yourself trying to do that ("Try to let things be and happen and change..."), that is itself trying to change things, but don't try to change that...

[Neither try to prevent change/​happening/​etc., nor try to not prevent change, and so on.]

Change will still happen, cf. impermanence, etc.

notes:

When you exploring trying to not change anything, for a time, maybe find yourself intermittently noticing ways you're trying to make things different, pushing, pushing away, managing, forcing. What can effortlessly take care of itself? And then what happens? And now? Also, does trying have to have any pushing in it; can trying itself be effortless and weightless? What would that back then have been like (or just right now, and now) with buddha mind?

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