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Well versed in the Buddha way,
I go the non-Way
Without abandoning my
Ordinary person’s affairs.The conditioned and
Name-and-form,
All are flowers in the sky.Nameless and formless,
I leave birth-and-death.
Layman P’ang (740-808)
If you want to be free,
Get to know your real self.
It has no form, no appearance,
No root, no basis, no abode,
But is lively and buoyant.
It responds with versatile facility,
But its function cannot be located.
Therefore when you look for it,
You become further from it;
When you seek it,
You turn away from it all the more.Linji (886)
The monkey is reaching
For the moon in the water.
Until death overtakes him
He’ll never give up.
If he’d let go the branch and
Disappear in the deep pool,
The whole world would shine
With dazzling pureness.
Hakuin (1686-1768)
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