Original Face

falling upside-down into ocean

FOR YOUNG Hui-neng, hearing a phrase in a market...

dwelling nowhere, bring forth that mind...

suddenly,

intimacy vs. emptiness...a direct experience, not an insight 

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LATER, ADEPT HUI-NENG admonishes: 

your original face before your parents were born...

Hui-neng, Siddhartha, flower, sky, soil, sun, moon, you & I, George Washington, dog, rain, river are there...

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HUI-NENG--a late admonition:

neither coming nor going...