Buddha's lotus is born in boiling water

                                                  - Han Shan

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Excerpt from the "Poetry of Zen" by Sam Hamill & J.P. Seaton

 "Reality is not somewhere outside. How can you find it, if you turn away from yourself?..." 

- Ming Kúang (Heart Sutra Commentary)

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Excerpt from "The Heart Sutra" by Red Pine

Heaven is eternal. The earth endures.

The reason for heaven's eternity and earth's endurance
is that they do not live for themselves only
and therefore may live forever.

The sage steps back but remains in front,
the outsider always within.

Self is realized through selflessness.

- Lao Tzu

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What does it matter, the new year, the old year?
I stretch out my legs and all alone have a quiet sleep.
Don't tell me I am not taking my instructions.
Here and there the nightingale is singing; the highest Zen.

- Bankei Yotaku (1622-1693)
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The most important thing is to find out
what is the most important thing.

Shunryu Suzuki

"I like to wash,
the dust of this world
In the droplets of dew."

- Basho

"This world of dew
is just a world of dew,
and yet..."

- Kobayashi Issa