Mountain home sleeping
No dreams of dust.
Three robes are plenty;
Who says I’m poor?
One for my pillow,
One to serve as a mat,
And at the thunder of my snoring
Heaven and Earth disappear.
Mountain home sleeping
No dreams of dust.
Three robes are plenty;
Who says I’m poor?
One for my pillow,
One to serve as a mat,
And at the thunder of my snoring
Heaven and Earth disappear.
There is no dharma
that can be explained, no mind that
can be spoken of: inherent reality-nature is empty.
Going back to the fundamental basis is the Path. The real
identity of the Path is empty and boundless, vast and pure.
With its stillness and solitude, it obliterates the cosmos.
It pervades ancient and modern, but its nature
is pure. It is perfect from top to bottom
and everywhere pure. This is the
pure buddha-land.
…The Path
of enlightenment
cannot be charted or measured:
highest of the high, vast beyond limit,
deepest of the deep, profound beyond
fathoming, big enough to contain
heaven and earth, small enough
to enter an infinitesimal
point—thus it is called
the Path.
Records of the Teachers and Students of the Lanka
she once suggested that every internally displaced family be given a small tree to plant
The sage
knows herself, but doesn’t
dwell on herself; loves herself, but no
more than she loves everyone else. She
adopts the concerns of heaven
as her own.
from The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu,
Something mysterious
and perfect existed before even heaven
and earth were born. Silent, immeasurable,
standing alone and unchanging, moving
without end or exhaustion, it is the
mother of the known and
unknown universe.
I don’t know
its name, so I call it by an
alias: tao. Forced to describe
it, I only say, “It is
great.”
That which is great continues.
That which continues goes far.
That which goes far returns.
Therefore tao is great,
Heaven is great, earth is great,
a person of tao is great. These
are the four greatnesses
in the universe.
A person of tao follows earth.
Earth follows Heaven.
Heaven follows tao.
Tao follows its
own nature.
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