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Buddhist : Zen / Chan
Taoist
7th Century

About Yoka Genkaku (Yongjia Xuanjue)

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English version by
Robert Aitken

Original Language
Chinese
[15] Some may slander, some may abuse; (from The Shodoka)

Themes
  Fire
  Sky
  Sound
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Buddhism and Zen, by Nyogen Senzaki / Ruth Strout McCandless

Some may slander, some may abuse;
They try to set fire to the heavens with a torch
And end by merely tiring themselves out.
I hear their scandal as though it were ambrosial truth;
Immediately everything melts
And I enter the place beyond thought and words.

 

 

 

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