Reading this poem reminds me of Bodhidharma’s declaration to Eka: ‘On your behalf I have already bestowed on you peaceful awareness’ Without this special element in religion, shinjin or satori would not be possible.
Chan / Seon / Zen
The Willow by Trevor Leggett
Thought I would like to share this verse and Zen Calligraphy with you from a new printing of The old Zen Master by Trevor Leggett. Very apt in the current financial crisis…
The Way of Tea, by Popchong Sunim
Do not gulp the tea but sip it slowly allowing its fragrance to fill one’s mouth. There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking except one of thankfulness. The nature of the tea itself is that of no-mind…
The Supreme Teaching is Free
Earnest Zen trainees: Exert yourself in the way that points directly to your original Buddha-nature…
All the discourses of the Buddhas and patriarchs are words pointing to the mind
All of you! If you want to return to your homes, simply wake up to your true nature.
Manjushri Bodhisattva
Those who seek for the Tathagata should seek for the self. For “self” and “Buddha” are synonymous…
At the beginning you have to take up a koan, Zen master Bukko
Zen sitting is not some sort of operation to be performed. It is going into one’s true original nature before father or mother were born. The self seeks to grasp the self, but it is already the self, so why should it go to grasp the self? Look into it…
Only One Way, by Trevor Leggett
It is worth knowing that one can get hypnotized into thinking that there is only one way to do a thing correctly.
Buddhism now 