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I follow my impulsive feet
Wherever they might go
My body is a pine tree
Surrounded by the snow
Sometimes I simply stand
Beside a flowing stream
Sometimes I chase a drifting
Cloud past another peak

~ Han-shan Te-ch’ing (1546-1623)

@rookie54 said
I follow my impulsive feet
Wherever they might go
My body is a pine tree
Surrounded by the snow
Sometimes I simply stand
Beside a flowing stream
Sometimes I chase a drifting
Cloud past another peak

~ Han-shan Te-ch’ing (1546-1623)

Fundamentally the correct teaching is
Neither instantaneous nor gradual,
Whereas the nature of each individual
May be either sharp or dull.
The deluded person practices the gradual
Method whereas the enlightened person
Realizes the instantaneous union with
Reality. This is why the unreal names of
Instantaneous and gradual methods have
Been in use, but there will be no
Difference between the two when their own
Minds are known and their fundamental
Nature is perceived.

Bodhisattva Sila Sutra

My assertions are correct,
you poor, deluded being.
Heed this distillation, you
might find it rather freeing --
or maybe just another
load of guff, my little sibling.
But I am quite correct and
there's no room for any quibbling!

😉

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts. If a person speaks or acts with an evil thought, suffering follows him, as the wheel follow the hoof of and beast that draws the wagon.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a person speaks or acts with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

Dhammapada

I gaze on myself in the stream’s emerald flow
Or sit on a boulder by a cliff.
My mind, a lonely cloud, leans on nothing,
Needs nothing from the world and its endless events.

~ Han Shan (9th c)

The gates to the Way are manifold;
Each is profound and effective.
But deepest and finer
Is the sky beyond the sky, that,
Understood, corresponds to the
Tao of heaven.

~ Loy Ching-Yuen (1873-1960)

Who can be a wild deer
Among deserted mountains
Satisfied with tall grass and pines
If the realm of dust
Was an endless dream
How then did heroes reach the
Land of peaks?

~ Han-shan Te-ch’ing (1546-1623)

https://www.dailyzen.com/

convenience stores can be quite fine
and nothing wrong with asphalt
within, without, whatever pines
is not necessarily my fault

Wayfarers with enlightened eyes
Strike down both devil and Buddha.
If you love the holy and despise the ordinary,
You are bobbing in the ocean of birth and death.

~ Lin Chi (d 867)

The ultimate Way is simple and easy,
Yet profoundly deep.
From the beginning it does not set up steps,
Standing like a wall a mile high.
Therefore ancient buddhas
Have been known to carry out this teaching by silence.

~ Yuan-wu



speak less
listen more
unlearn
collect data
relearn
listen more

rookie's in the stream
I swear I didn't do it
life is but a dream
until we see right through it

@rookie54 said
The ultimate Way is simple and easy,
Yet profoundly deep.
From the beginning it does not set up steps,
Standing like a wall a mile high.
Therefore ancient buddhas
Have been known to carry out this teaching by silence.

~ Yuan-wu

The sixth ancestor of Zen
Said to someone who had
Just been awakened,
“What I tell you is not a secret.
The secret is in you.”
Another Zen master said to a companion,
“Everything flows from your own heart.”

~ Fayan