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Everyone who reads my poems
Must protect the purity
Of their heart’s heart
Cut down your craving
Continue your days modestly
Coax the crooked and the bent
Then you’ll be upright
Drive out and chase
Away your evil karma
Return home and follow
Your true nature
On that day you’ll get the
Buddhabody as swiftly
As Lu-ling runs

~ Han-shan

In the flash of a single thought,
The agitated mind is put to rest.
All the inner and outer sensations
Become lucid and transparent.
Breaking the great void
By a turning of the body,
The ten thousand phenomena
Of the majestic world
Rise and disappear.

~ Han-shan Te-ch’ing (1546-1623)

I climb to Great Compassion Hall
And gaze out at the clouds and haze.
Ancient trees stretch toward the sky,
A fresh breeze whispers of
Ten thousand generations.
Below, Dragon King Spring
So pure you can see right to its source.

~ Ryokan (1758-1831)

The water’s breath mingles with reflected mountains;
Autumn has come to the vast sky.
I enjoy to finding temples hidden deep in the forest,
Regret the broken silence when
My boat moves from the shore.
Sparse reeds are snapping,
Though it isn’t cold yet;
A rainbow’s fragment arches in the setting sun.
Which way now to my little hut?
The fisherman’s songs bring thoughts of home.

~ Lin Pu (967-1028)

Trees, laced in mountain mist,
Patchy broken clouds;
The wind scatters a rainstorm of fragrant petals.
The green willows, it is said, are without feelings
Why then do they try so hard to touch the traveler
With their catkins?

~ Yang Wan-li (1127-1206)

When you enter this Dharma door,
Sitting upright, you become Buddha.
Upon reaching the other shore
You attain perfection.

True aspirants of the Tao
Contemplate their own mind.
Knowing Buddha lies within,
There is no need to search outside.

~ Master Fu (497-569)

When I see
The purity of
The lotus flower,
I realize my heart
Can no longer be stained.

~ Mokuan (1611-1684)

When you look closely,

You see that people of the present

Are none other than people of old,

And the functions of the present

Are none other than the functions of the past;

Even going through a thousand changes

And myriad transformations,

Here it is just necessary
For you to recognize it first hand

Before you can attain it.

~ Foyan (1067-1120)

The Way does not need cultivation;
Just don’t pollute it.
What is pollution?
As long as you have a fluctuating mind,
Creating artificialities and pursuing inclinations,
All is pollution.
If you want to understand the Way directly,
The normal mind is the Way.
What is normal mind?
It has no artificial contrivance,
No right or wrong, no grasping or rejection,
No ordinariness and no sanctity.

~ Ancestor Ma (709–788)

@rookie54 said
The Way does not need cultivation;
Just don’t pollute it.
What is pollution?
As long as you have a fluctuating mind,
Creating artificialities and pursuing inclinations,
All is pollution.
If you want to understand the Way directly,
The normal mind is the Way.
What is normal mind?
It has no artificial contrivance,
No right or wrong, no grasping or rejection,
No ordinariness and no sanctity.

~ Ancestor Ma (709–788)