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Daily Inspiration - 30 Oct 2007
Recognize as the basis the mind
That does not pursue things.
In the midst of your daily activities,
As you attend to things and
Respond to things,
Always rely on this mind that
Does not pursue things.
As soon as your mind starts to pursue
Things, immediately gather it back in.
Stay with this for a long time, and you
Will gradually become ripe.
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Daily Inspiration - 30 Oct 2007
I climb the road to Cold Mountain,
The road to Cold Mountain that never ends.
The valleys are long and strewn with stones;
The streams broad and banked with thick grass.
Moss is slippery, though no rain has fallen;
Pines sigh, but it isn’t the wind.
Who can break from the snares of the world
And sit with me among the white […]
Daily Inspiration - 30 Oct 2007
The buddhas and Zen masters of all times and places
have emerged only on account of search for truth.
Present day seekers are also in search of truth.
Only when you attain truth will you be done;
until you have attained it,
you will repeat your former ways.
Lin Chi (d 867?)
Daily Inspiration - 30 Oct 2007
In the still night by the vacant window,
Wrapped in monk’s robe I sit in meditation.
Navel and nostrils lines up straight;
Ears paired to the slope of the shoulders.
Window whitens – the moon comes up;
Rain’s stopped, but drops go on dripping.
Wonderful – the moon of this moment,
Distant, vast.
Ryokan (1758–1831
Daily Inspiration - 30 Oct 2007
She is like white clouds rising from the mountains,
No-mind from the start.
She is like the roosting bird who feels no longing
For the woods of home.
Because this person of the Way happens to enjoy
The mountains and streams,
She wanders among them unconcerned about how deep
Into the lakeside mountain peaks she goes.
She has gone to the empty cliffs […]
Daily Inspiration - 30 Oct 2007
It is the one who is without obsession who is noble.
Just do not act in a contrived manner; simply be normal.
When you go searching elsewhere outside yourself,
your whole approach is already mistaken.
You just try to seek buddhahood,
but buddhahood is just a name, an expression.
Do you know the one who is doing the searching?
Lin Chi […]
Daily Inspiration - 30 Oct 2007
Natural mind like the Autumn moon
Reflected on a clear jade lake.
Nothing like it
How to explain it?
Han Shan (627–649)
Daily Inspiration - 30 Oct 2007
To be able to be unhurried when hurried;
To be able not to slack off
When relaxed; to be able not to be
Frightened and at a loss for what to
Do when frightened and at a loss;
This is the learning that returns us
To our natural state and
Transforms our lives.
Liu Wenmin (early 16th cent)
Daily Inspiration - 30 Oct 2007
I cannot find the Monastery of Heaped Fragrance,
Miles up now into the clouds of the summit.
There is no footpath through the ancient woods.
Where did the bell sound,
Deep in the sound, deep in the mountain?
The voice of the torrent gulps over jagged stones;
Sunlight hardly warms the bluish pines.
As dusk deepens in these unfathomable mazes,
I practice meditation
To […]
Daily Inspiration - 30 Oct 2007
It is absolutely necessary for you to seek
to obtain genuinely accurate insight and understanding.
Then you can travel freely anywhere and avoid being
confused by the common sort of spiritual charmer.
Lin Chi (d 867?)
