Searching for the Dharma

Searching for the Dharma

You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the Dharma.
So many long days in the archives, copying, copying.

 

The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung
make heavy baggage.

 

Here! I've picked you a bunch of wildflowers.
Their meaning is the same
but they're much easier to carry.

 

~ Xu Yun ~

 

(Empty Cloud: The Autobiography of the Chinese Zen Master,

Trans. Charles Luck, ed. by Richard Hunn)

  

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