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One who has attained the Tao
is master of herself,
and the universe is
dissolved for her.
Throw her in the company
of the noisy and the dirty,
and she will be like a lotus flower
growing from muddy water,
touched by it, yet unstained.

- T'u Lung

The wisdom of Enlightenment is
Inherent in every one of us.
It is because of the delusion
Under which our mind works
That we fail to realize it ourselves,
And that we have to seek
The advice and the guidance of Enlightened ones.

- Hui-neng (638-713)

If you want to be free,
Get to know your real self.
It has no form, no appearance, no root,
No basis, no abode, but is lively and buoyant.
It responds with versatile facility, but its function
Cannot be located;
When you look for it you become
Further from it. When you seek it
You turn away from it all the more.

- Rinzai (d.867)

The true person is
Not anyone in particular;
But like the deep blue color
Of the limitless sky,
It is everyone,
Everywhere in the world.

- Dogen (1200-1253)

Do not search for the truth;
Only cease to cherish opinions.
If there is even a trace
Of this and that,
Of right and wrong,
The mind will be lost
In confusion.
Although all dualities
Come from the One
Do not remain in the dualistic state.

- Seng-Tsan (d.606)

Doesn't matter who has the best lines: he who has least animosity wins.

7 days and nights sitting under a bodhi tree doesn't mean anything unless your name is Gautama

Half a pound of twopenny rice,
Half a pound of treacle,
That's the way the money goes
Pop! goes the weasel.

Up and down the City Road
In and out the Eagle
That's the way the money goes
Pop! goes the weasel.

Anon

Magnificent Peak

By its own nature
It towers above
The tangle of rivers
Don’t say it’s a lot of dirt
Piled high
Without end the mists of dawn,
The evening clouds
Draw their shadows across it
From the four directions
You can look up and see it
Green and steep and wild.

- Muso (1275-1351)

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!

Trusting the Buddha, good and bad,
I bid farewell
To the departing year.

Everything I touch
with tenderness, alas,
pricks like a bramble.

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)

The cold wintry wind
Is blowing so hard that
the sun sinks into the ocean.

Natsume Sōseki

@karoly-aczel said
Doesn't matter who has the best lines: he who has least animosity wins.

3 thumbs down?
I wrote this and it's damn good. The thumbs just reinforce the meaning of it.

Meditation is not
A way to enlightenment,
Nor is it a method
Of achieving anything at all.
It is peace and blessedness itself.
It is the actualization of wisdom,
The ultimate truth
Of the oneness of all things.
- Dogen (1200-1253)

@rookie54

Confucius say:

"Man running in front of bus get tired"

"Man running in back of bus get exhausted"

When the moon
Of your mind becomes
Clouded over with confusion,
You are searching
Around for the light outside.
- Hozoin Gakuzengo Inye