Not Destroyed

Lance Kinseth, 2018

4 English translations;

The Original Face has nowhere to hide.

When the world is destroyed, it is not destroyed.

No where to hide the original face.

When the universe collapses, it does not decay.

There is nowhere to hide the True Self.

When the world collapses, “it” is indestructible.

Your true self has nowhere to hide;

When the world is destroyed, it is not destroyed.

Wu-men, from “Wu-men’s Verse.” in Case 23, 

Hui-neng, Neither Good Nor Evil,” The Wu-Men Kuan

through and through...

A monk by the name of E-cho asked Hogen Buneki, a Master, "What is 

buddha?" 

"You are E-cho," the Master replied.

This reply of Hogen means, "Why do you seek for Buddha apart from E-cho who is sitting here right now?  

Where E-cho is E-cho through and through, there you see Buddha."

Zenkei  Shibayama, On Zazen Wasan

Ha Ha Ha... ah hah!

1=10,000 to the infinite power= 0

Still....

A man liked to fish but drought swallowed the river.

Seeing My Own Face

At Shoin-ji after 1717:

My own mind, mountains and rivers, the great earth seemed 

serene and bottomless.... After this, when I looked at all things,

it was as though I was seeing my own face.  For the

first time i understood the meaning of the saying, “The 

[enlightened spirit] sees the Buddha-nature within the eye.”

[bold, Kinseth]

Hakuin in Philip Yampolsky, trans. Zen Master Hakuin: 

Selected Writings

The One Thing That Matters

In reality, there is not the slightest thing that could be the source of understanding or doubt for you. Rather, you have the one thing that matters, each and every one of you! Its great function manifests without the slightest effort on your part; you are no different from the patriarch-buddhas!

Excerpted from:  Zen Master Yunmen: His Life and Essential Sayings

translated by Urs App

nowhere for dust to alight

Lance Kinseth, 2018

no body

no mind, mirror-bright

nowhere for dust to alight

muuuuuuuuuu