Search out the point
where your thoughts arise and disappear.
See where a thought arises and vanishes. Keep this point
in mind and try to break right through it. Take up
this awareness as if holding a sharp
sword in your hand.
Search out the point
where your thoughts arise and disappear.
See where a thought arises and vanishes. Keep this point
in mind and try to break right through it. Take up
this awareness as if holding a sharp
sword in your hand.
No time
to lose worrying about
enlightenment — forget about
ambition, hide your talent in
the coalshed: let your
wisdom speak for
itself.
The power
of the sword lies not in anger
but in its unsheathed beauty: in potential.
The marvel of chi is that internalized, it radiates
in flow like a golden shaft of light
anchoring our spirit with
the universe.