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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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Original Language
Chinese
Going Beyond Desire

Themes
  Birth, Rebirth
 
 
 
 

 

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

Striving to leave the wilderness
You become part of what's wild.
Striving to cease grasping
Is, itself, grasping.
So how do you gain control and get beyond desire?
Open those eyes... the ones that were born in your own skull.

 

 

 

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