| Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb My daily activities are not unusual, I'm just naturally in harmony with them. Grasping nothing, discarding nothing. Supernatural power and marvelous activity - Drawing water and carrying firewood. ~Layman Pang-yun (740-808) Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and waters as waters. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and waters are not waters. But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest. For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and waters once again as waters. ~Ching-yuan Well versed in the Buddha Way, I go the non-Way Without abandoning my Ordinary person's affairs. The conditioned and Name-and-Form, All are flowers in the sky. Nameless and formless, I leave birth-and death. ~Pang Yun, Two Zen Classics, p.263 |
Everything just as it is,
as it is, as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add.
~Robert Aitken, Roshi, As it Is
The Great Way has no gate.
Clear water has no taste.
The tongue has no bone.
In complete stillness,
a stone girl is dancing.
~Seung Sahn
as it is, as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add.
~Robert Aitken, Roshi, As it Is
The Great Way has no gate.
Clear water has no taste.
The tongue has no bone.
In complete stillness,
a stone girl is dancing.
~Seung Sahn
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