{"id":6509,"date":"2019-08-02T08:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=6509"},"modified":"2019-08-02T08:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:18:54","slug":"hsu-yun-searching-for-the-dharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/02\/hsu-yun-searching-for-the-dharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Hsu Yun – Searching for the Dharma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Searching for the Dharma
\nby Hsu Yun<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the Dharma.
\nSo many long days in the archives, copying, copying.
\nThe gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung
\nmake heavy baggage.
\nHere! I\u2019ve picked you a bunch of wildflowers.
\nTheir meaning is the same
\nbut they\u2019re much easier to carry.<\/em><\/p>\n


\n\/ Image by Riki-Tiki-Myu<\/a> \/<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Something I wrote a few years back, in the springtime\u2026<\/p>\n

Walking yesterday, the trees are shyly showing their green buds, returning color to the world. I turned a corner and was bathed in the honey scent of new plum blossoms. These are the true books of the Dharma.<\/p>\n

The great masters don\u2019t wear an academic scowl; a silly grin sits easy on their faces. Must be from so much study on such a Spring day\u2026<\/p>\n


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<\/a>Recommended Books: Hsu Yun<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

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The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (A Poetry Chaikhana Anthology)<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nA Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nA Pictoral Biography of the Venerable Master Hsu Yun<\/a><\/small><\/td>\nEmpty Cloud: The Autobiography of Chinese Zen Master, Hsu Yun<\/a><\/small><\/td>\n<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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China (1839 \u2013 1959) Timeline<\/a>
\nBuddhist<\/a> : Zen \/ Chan<\/a>
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The Venerable Master Hsu Yun was born in 1839 or 1840 in the Guanzhou region of China.<\/p>\n

When he was 13, he declared that he wanted to join a Buddhist monastery, but his father refused to allow it. He eventually went against his father\u2019s wishes and became an ordained monk at age 20, in 1859.<\/p>\n

He had a naturally ascetic temperament and often refused even the minimal food of a monk. He later went on a three year solitary retreat into the forest where he sustained himself primarily on wild greens and pure stream water.<\/p>\n

Hsu Yun traveled quite a bit in his life, teaching in many parts of China and Southeast Asia. He is credited by many with revitalizing Buddhist practice throughout much of the region, which was showing signs of degeneration and decline in the period leading up to and following the communist revolution.<\/p>\n

Although he attained immense respect, Hsu Yun remained supremely humble and simple in his lifestyle. He chose to live the final years of his long life quietly in his monastery\u2019s cow shed.<\/p>\n

More poetry by Hsu Yun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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