- If you truly appreciate (value) a single thread, your eye (see) can suitably meet the world and its changes.
- Value – I’ve built a grass hut where there’s nothing of value. …it includes the entire world. What happens there…illuminating forms and their nature.
- A single thread (in the mind); one-pointed. …trust without doubt.
- Seeing clearly, do not be fooled, and the ten thousand situations cannot shroud (bury) you.
- Burial cloth, obscures, dead.
- Do Not Be Fooled by fooling around with the stuff of life that is not
- The pervasive knowledge of the truth that everything changes strengthens our capacity to meet the world.
- Moonlight falls on the water, wind blows over the pines.
- Light and shadow do not confuse us; sounds and voices do not block
- The whistling wind can resonate, pervading without impediment through the various structures.
- Flowing along with things, harmonizing without deviation, thoroughly abandoning webs of dust, still one does not arrive in the original home.
- Put to rest the remnants of your conditioning.
- Sit empty of worldly anxiety, silent and bright, clear and illuminating, blank and accepting, far-reaching and responsive.
- Without encountering external dusts, fulfilled in your own spirit, arrive at this field and immediately recognize your ancestors.
Author: Fly
Old Moon
Zen Contemplative of the Order of Hsu Yun
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Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage by Shitou Xiqian