03-08-2012, 12:00 AM
Genjo koan (Truth unfolding)
When various things are Buddhist things... ZAZEN PRACTICE
then there is wisdom
and there is practice, there is life and there is death,
there are buddhas and there are sentient beings. When all
things have no self, there is no delusion and there is no satori,
there are no buddhas and there are no sentient beings,
there are no beginnings and there are no endings. The way
of the buddha inherently soars above such extravagance
and austerity, uniting beginnings and endings, uniting delusion
and satori, uniting sentient beings and buddhas. It is
falling blossoms uniting love and sorrow, spreading weeds
uniting indifference and dislike, nothing more.
http://www.bob.myers.name/pub/Truth%20Unfolding.pdf
When various things are Buddhist things... ZAZEN PRACTICE
then there is wisdom
and there is practice, there is life and there is death,
there are buddhas and there are sentient beings. When all
things have no self, there is no delusion and there is no satori,
there are no buddhas and there are no sentient beings,
there are no beginnings and there are no endings. The way
of the buddha inherently soars above such extravagance
and austerity, uniting beginnings and endings, uniting delusion
and satori, uniting sentient beings and buddhas. It is
falling blossoms uniting love and sorrow, spreading weeds
uniting indifference and dislike, nothing more.
http://www.bob.myers.name/pub/Truth%20Unfolding.pdf

