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Ode to Chan

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Is itself absolute reality

What lies at one's feet

Is this complete reality in one foot.

 

One's whole mind and body of creation

Having never once suffered existence:

Following the heart's desire

Without ever once counting

Its singular rhythm.

 

Weeds growing; a flower's fall

Amidst our delusion; there is no other

Shining vacancy

Through and through.

 

ed note: (removed line 7: "Shining all along" and bumped everything below up one line)

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Selfless adaption to ordinary circumstances

Effectively harmonizing reality subsuming appearances

Is not dependent on accumulating knowledge

But rather overcoming the accumulating mentality

Obstructing one's selfless being.

 

This is the meaning of no-doctrine Chan.

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