The Spirit of Zen by Solala Towler
Author:Solala Towler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Spirit of Zen
ISBN: 9781780289908
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2016-12-27T16:00:00+00:00
Our body is the bodhi tree
and our mind a mirror bright.
Carefully we wipe them hour by hour
and let no dust alight.
This impressed all the other students and it seemed as though Shen Xiu had a lock on the contest but Hung Jen was not so sure. Hui Neng, busy in the kitchen and serving the other monks their meals, heard their excited conversation about Shen Xiu’s poem. One night he had a sudden experience of illumination and came up with a poem of his own. Of course he could not write it out himself, being illiterate, but he got one of the younger monks to write it out for him. His went like this:
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