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Though no one comes seeking
My lowly hut,
Yet spring has come And left its mark
In the melting of the garden snow.

- Muso Soseki (1275-1351)

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a good friend of mine had a seizure this morning
she isn't breathing well
we will spend time in the garden
i do not like to cry

Empty mountain, no one visible,
Only echoes of voices can be heard:
The setting sun's rays,
Entering deep woods,
Reflect back again upon green moss.

- Wang Wei (701-761)

There are those who can see the mountains, the rivers, the earth, the grass, the trees, the tile, the pebble, as their own essential nature.
Their minds are one with the atmosphere of the waterfall, the stones, the grass, and trees, changing through the four seasons.

- Muso Soseki (1275-1351)

"Put down all entangling conditions, let not one thought arise" is a prerequisite for the practice of Ch'an.
Now that we know this, how do we accomplish it?

- Hsu-yun (1840-1959)

A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.

And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.

Emily Dickinson

No need to seek the real;
Just extinguish your views.
Do not abide in dualistic views;
Take care not to seek after them.
As soon as there is right and wrong,
The mind is scattered and lost.
Two comes from one,
Yet do not even keep the one.

- Seng Ts'an (?-606)

https://www.dailyzen.com/

"one can think deeply and be quite insane"

- nikola tesla

Sitting on top of a boulder
The gorge stream icy cold
Quiet fun holds a special charm
Fogged-in on deserted cliffs
A fine place to rest
The sun leans and tree shadows sprawl
While I view the ground of my mind
A lotus comes out of the mud.

- Han-shan

The more you talk and think about it,
The further astray you wander from the truth.
Stop talking and thinking,
And there is nothing you will not be able to know.
To return to the root is to find the meaning,
But to pursue appearances is to miss the source.
At the moment of inner enlightenment
There is a going beyond appearance and emptiness.

- Seng Ts’an (d.606)

the most interesting hermeneutic is the one that sees paul’s statements on women as permanent injunctions for all time,

but

sees jesus’s command to love our enemies as being so strangely full of nuance that it never seems to apply

The question clear,
The answer deep,
Each particle,
Each instant a reality.
A bird call shrills
Through the mountain dawn:
Look where the old master sits,
A rock in Zen.

- Sodo (1841–1925)

If you do not spontaneously
Trust yourself sufficiently,
You will be in a frantic state,
Pursuing all sorts of objects
And being changed
By those objects,
Unable to be independent.

- Linji (d.867)

I explain to you matters
Pertaining to enlightenment,
But don’t try to keep
Your mind on them.
Just turn to the ocean
Of your own essence
And develop practical
Accord with its nature.

- Yangshan

I didn't go to church today,
I trust the Lord to understand.
The surf was swirling blue and white,
The children swirling on the sand.
He knows, He knows how brief my stay,
How brief this spell of summer weather,
He knows when I am said and done
We'll have plenty of time together.

Ogden Nash

Such is that, which is.

Anon.