Upon Awakening...

...everything's a selfie.

What Is It

Shunryu Suzuki:

What is it

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