Flowers,
sesame seed, bowls of fresh water,
a tuft of kusa-grass, all this altar paraphernalia
is not needed by someone who takes
the teacher’s words in and
honestly lives
them.
Full of
longing in meditation,
one sinks into a joy that is free of
any impulse to act and will
not enter a human
birth again.
When
we see clearly,
nothing is born, nothing
dies, nothing ever happens.
If you can dwell in emptiness,
breathe emptiness, see
only emptiness, you
will always
be full.
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How can I
tell what I’ve seen?
Fall, stand—it’s clear at once.
Wearing my cowl backwards,
I trample the old path.
And the new.
hakuin ekaku: working for the benefit of others
Boundless and
free is the sky of samadhi,
bright the full moon of wisdom!
Truly, is anything missing now?
Nirvana is right here, before our eyes;
this very place is the lotus land,
this very body the
buddha.
Any activity or
occupation can be your practice.
As you go about what you do, simply detach
your mind from its objects. Opening
to emptiness in an alert state,
you become One
with what
is.
the progress of the world depends upon you:
i ching hexagram 45 / t’sui (gathering together)
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