The Five Houses of Zen by Thomas Cleary

Author:Thomas Cleary
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Hung-chih

Sermons

EMPTY YET AWARE, the original light shines spontaneously; tranquil yet responsive, the great function manifests. A wooden horse neighing in the wind does not walk the steps of the present moment; a clay ox emerging from the sea plows the springtime of the eon of emptiness.

Understand?

Where a jade man beckons, even greater marvel is on the way back.

One continuous clear void, the night precisely midway; the moon, cool, spews frost. When light and dark are merged without division, who distinguishes relative and absolute herein?

Thus it is said, “Although the absolute is absolute, yet it is relative; although the relative is relative, yet it is complete.” At this precise moment, how do you discern?

How clear—twin shining eyes before any impulse!

How stately—the eternal body outside forms!

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