Zen-7 Poems

Some of the poems Ven. Jianhu mentioned in the Zen-7 Retreat:

見盧山瀑布題詩

穿雲透石不辭勞，遠地方知出處高
溪澗豈能留得住，終歸大海作波濤

--香雲智閑 & 唐宣宗

On Seeing the Waterfall at Mt. Lu

Penetrating the clouds and the rocks, you are not detered by the hardships
Haveing gone this far, you must come from a high place.
How can the rivers and streams contain me?
My place in to roam free in the great ocean.

--Master Xianyun & Emperor Tang Xuan Zong

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塵勞迥脫事非常，緊把繩頭做一場。

不是一番寒徹骨，爭得梅花撲鼻香。

--黃檗禪師

Chill to the Bone

To be completely free from the burden of defilements
Is no ordinary undertaking;
Grab the rope firmly with all your might!
Only through the bone-biting chill of winter,
Will the plum blossoms
Smack you with their delightful fragrance.

--Master Huang Bo

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學道之人不識真，祇為從來認識神。

無始劫來生死本，癡人喚作本來人。

--長沙景岑禪師

The cultivators never recognized what is real,
Because they always think of consciousness as the soul,
Which is the root of samsara since beginningless time;
They mistake the dummy as the original.

--Master Chang Sha

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但自無心於萬物，何妨萬物時圍繞

--龐蘊居士

If the mind does not cling to anything,
It doesn’t matter if you’re surrounded by everything.

--Layman Pang Yun