A ligkaribe Article - inspiration
AS I ALWAYS SAY THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A KOAN FOR GOOD LIVING - FEAST YOUR HEART OUT. BLESSED BE ALL THE BUDDHAS BE BLESSED, BLESSED BE ALL OF US, AS WE ARE ALL BUDDHAS.
“Since all men posses the unborn Buddha heart from their birth, you are not now seeking for the first time to follow it. If you perform your chores with all your might, you are practicing the unborn heart.”
“Think of what does not think. How do you think of what does not think? It is not thinking”
“What is this talk that goes beyond Buddha’s and patriarchs?”
“I drank up the Buddha’s and patriarchs – all the mountains and rivers without my mouth”
“After I break through a solid gate clear wind blows from time immemorial”
“it is like the water buffalos passing through a window lattice,
Its head, horns, and four hooves have all passed through,
Why can’t its tail pass through?”
“Is there a truth that has not been preached to men?
This is not mind, this is not Buddha, this is not a thing”
“Where are you going?
To where there is no change
How can you go where there is no change?
My going is no change”
“I heard about the cow with no nostrils
and suddenly the universe is my home
Yonam mountain lies flat under the road,
A farmer at the end of his work is singing”
The real within the apparent
“A sleepy eyed grandma
Encounters herself in an old mirror
Clearly she sees a face,
But it doesn’t resemble hers at all
Too bad, with a muddled head
She tries to recognize her reflection”
The apparent within the real
“in the third watch of the night
Before the moon appears,
No wonder when we meet
There is no recognition!
Still cherished in my heart
is the beauty of earlier days”
The coming from within the real
“within nothingness there is a path
Leading away from the dusts of the world.
Even if you observe the taboo
Of the present emperor’s name
You will surpass that eloquent one of yore
Who silenced every tongue”
“The body is the Bodhi (enlightenment) tree
The mind is like a clear mirror
At all times we must wipe it clean
And must not let the dust collect”
“bhodi originally has no tree
The mirror also has no stand
Bhudha nature is always clean and pure
Where can dust alight”
“Since all men posses the unborn Buddha heart from their birth, you are not now seeking for the first time to follow it. If you perform your chores with all your might, you are practicing the unborn heart.”
“Think of what does not think. How do you think of what does not think? It is not thinking”
“What is this talk that goes beyond Buddha’s and patriarchs?”
“I drank up the Buddha’s and patriarchs – all the mountains and rivers without my mouth”
“After I break through a solid gate clear wind blows from time immemorial”
“it is like the water buffalos passing through a window lattice,
Its head, horns, and four hooves have all passed through,
Why can’t its tail pass through?”
“Is there a truth that has not been preached to men?
This is not mind, this is not Buddha, this is not a thing”
“Where are you going?
To where there is no change
How can you go where there is no change?
My going is no change”
“I heard about the cow with no nostrils
and suddenly the universe is my home
Yonam mountain lies flat under the road,
A farmer at the end of his work is singing”
The real within the apparent
“A sleepy eyed grandma
Encounters herself in an old mirror
Clearly she sees a face,
But it doesn’t resemble hers at all
Too bad, with a muddled head
She tries to recognize her reflection”
The apparent within the real
“in the third watch of the night
Before the moon appears,
No wonder when we meet
There is no recognition!
Still cherished in my heart
is the beauty of earlier days”
The coming from within the real
“within nothingness there is a path
Leading away from the dusts of the world.
Even if you observe the taboo
Of the present emperor’s name
You will surpass that eloquent one of yore
Who silenced every tongue”
“The body is the Bodhi (enlightenment) tree
The mind is like a clear mirror
At all times we must wipe it clean
And must not let the dust collect”
“bhodi originally has no tree
The mirror also has no stand
Bhudha nature is always clean and pure
Where can dust alight”
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