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Month: October 2002

  • lightning flash

    In the space of a lightning flash,
    the world is built and established.

    – Su Shih (1073)

  • unborn

    All
    things are perfectly resolved in the
    Unborn.

    – Bankei (1622-1693)

  • dead trees

    “Enlightenment” and “Nirvana”?
    They are dead trees
    to fasten a donkey to.

    What can these things
    have to do with you
    becoming free?

    – Te-shan (780-865)

  • cleansing stream

    Do you know how to let the
    mountain stream cleanse your mind?

    Every thought is pulled out along the smooth,
    polished stones, disappearing
    downstream in the frothy current.

    The mind keeps on making more thoughts
    until it sees that they are
    all being carried away downstream;
    until it realizes that they
    are all vanishing,
    dissolving into an unseen point.

    Then it won’t bother for awhile.

    – Ji Aoi Isshi

    – Ji Aoi Isshi