Look for Buddha outside your own mind,
and Buddha becomes the devil.
- Dogen
Whether you are going or staying or sitting or lying down,
the whole world is your own self.
You must find out
whether the mountains, rivers, grass, and forests
exist in your own mind or exist outside it.
Analyze the ten thousand things,
dissect them minutely,
and when you take this to the limit
you will come to the limitless,
when you search into it you come to the end of search,
where thinking goes no further and distinctions vanish.
When you smash the citadel of doubt,
then the Buddha is simply yourself.
- Daikaku
Unfettered at last, a traveling monk,
I pass the old Zen barrier.
Mine is a traceless stream-and-cloud life,
Of these mountains, which shall be my home?
- Manan
My legacy -
What will it be?
Flowers in spring,
The cuckoo in summer,
And the crimson maples
Of autumn ...
- Ryokan
Loving old priceless things,
I've scorned those seeking
Truth outside themselves:
Here, on the tip of the nose.
- Layman Makusho
Everything
just as it is,
as it is,
as is.
Flowers in bloom.
Nothing to add.
- Roshi
A special transmission outside the scriptures;
No dependence upon words and letters;
Direct pointing at the soul of man:
Seeing into one's nature and the attainment of Buddhahood.
- Bodhidharma
|