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Buddhist : Zen / Chan

19th Century

About Hsu Yun

Timeline (1839 - 1959)

Hsu Yun, Hsu Yun poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Zen / Chan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

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English version by
Paul Hansen

Original Language
Chinese

Feelings on Remembering the Day I first Produced the Mind

Themes

Light

Moon

Mountain

Snake

Water

Recommended Books

	A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, Edited by J. P. Seaton / Edited by Dennis Maloney
	Empty Cloud: The Autobiography of Chinese Zen Master, Hsu Yun, by Hsu Yun
	A Pictoral Biography of the Venerable Master Hsu Yun, by Hsuan Hua

Drawn some sixty years ago by karma
I turned life upside down
And climbed straight on to lofty summits.
Between my eyes a hanging sword,
The Triple World is pure.
Empty-handed, I hold a hoe, clearing a galaxy.

As the 'Ocean of the Knowing-mind' dries up,
Pearls shine forth by themselves;
Space smashed to dust, a moon hangs independent.
I threw my net through Heaven,
Caught the dragon and the phoenix;
Alone I walk through the cosmos,
Connecting the past and its people.

-- from A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, Edited by J. P. Seaton / Edited by Dennis Maloney

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