Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku: Let others slander me; (from The Song of Enlightenment)

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Let others slander me; (from The Song of Enlightenment)

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

English version by
International Institute for the Translation of Buddhist Texts

Original Language
Chinese

Buddhist : Zen / Chan

Taoist

7th Century

Let others slander me;
I bear their condemnation.
Those who try to burn the sky only exhaust themselves.
When I hear it, it's just like drinking sweet dew.
Thus smelted and refined, suddenly one enters the inconceivable.

-- from Song of Enlightenment: By Great Master Yung Chia of the T'ang Dynasty, Edited by Tripitaka Master Hua / Translated by International Institute for the Translation of Buddhist Texts

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Themes

Fire

Honey

Sky

Sound

Water

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