Searching for the Dharma
.
.
You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the Dharma.
So many long days in the archives, copying, copying.
So many long days in the archives, copying, copying.
The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung
make heavy baggage.
make heavy baggage.
Here! I've picked you a bunch of wildflowers.
Their meaning is the same
but they're much easier to carry.
.
Their meaning is the same
but they're much easier to carry.
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by Xu Yun
from Empty Cloud: The Autobiography of the Chinese Zen Master
Trans. Charles Luck, ed. by Richard Hunn