Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku: [30] To live in nothingness is to ignore cause and effect; (from The Shodoka)

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[30] To live in nothingness is to ignore cause and effect; (from The Shodoka)

by Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku
(665 - 713) Timeline

English version by
Robert Aitken

Original Language
Chinese

Buddhist : Zen / Chan

Taoist

7th Century

To live in nothingness is to ignore cause and effect;
This chaos leads only to disaster.
The one who clings to vacancy, rejecting the world of things,
Escapes from drowning but leaps into fire.

Themes

Fire

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	Buddhism and Zen, by Nyogen Senzaki / Ruth Strout McCandless

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