Have you seen the bush by moonlight, from the train, go running by?
Blackened log and stump and sapling, ghostly trees all dead and dry;
Here a patch of glassy water; there a glimpse of mystic sky?
Have you heard the still voice calling – yet so warm, and yet so cold:
“I’m the Mother-Bush that bore you! Come to me when you are old?”
No one is absent and no one is ignorant.
Originally, no one is deluded.
- Bankei (1622-1693)
“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”
- Isaac Newton
“Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.”
- Edward Abbey
They act without mind,
They respond with certainty.
- Hongzhi Zhengjue (1091-1157)
After enlightenment one understands
That the Six Classics
Contain not even a word.
- Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529)
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When you just sit,
you are free from the five sense desires
and the five hindrances.
- Dogen (1200-1253)
Does one really have to fret
About enlightenment?
No matter what road I travel,
I’m going home.
- Shinsho