Monday, July 27, 2009

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The Gate Emerging from Within the Body

Let go of emptiness and come back to the brambly forest.

Riding backward on the ox, drunken and singing;

Who could dislike the misty rain pattering on your bamboo raincoat and
hat?

In empty space you cannot stick a needle.

Hongzhi Zhengjue (1091-1157)

(Trans. By Taigen Dan Leighton and Yi Wu)

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