Classic Buddhist verses

1 The body is like a Bodhi tree, and the mind is like a clear stage. I brush it diligently at all times to avoid any dust. —— (Poetry of Shenxiu Dharma)

2 Bodhi originally had no tree, and the bright realm became a non-stand. There was nothing in the beginning, so how could it cause dust. —— (Poetry of the Sixth Patriarch)

3 We meet our way back everywhere, reaching our hometown first and foremost. It's already done, so why bother thinking about it. —— (The Divine Illumination is like an enlightenment poem)

4 Gold dust is in the eyes, and clothes and beads are covered with dust. Already spiritual but not serious, who does the Buddha think of you? —— (Wen Yanshi)

5 I have been keeping this matter in my mind for several years, and I have been unable to open my eyes after asking all kinds of questions. The liver and gallbladder were both broken at this time, and there was a sound of "waiting for the arrival of Yang" on the river. —— (Poetry of Enlightenment by the Master of the Branch Nunnery)

6 Ice freezes in the flames, and poplars fly in September. The mud cow roars on the water, and the wooden horse neighs in the wind. —— (Ben Ji's poem)

7 I have been looking for a swordsman for thirty years, and the leaves have fallen and branches have sprouted several times. Ever since I first saw Peach Blossom, I still have no doubts until now. ——(Lingyun Zhiqin's Enlightenment Poetry)

8 There is an idle field in front of the mountain. He crosses his hands and asks his ancestors. How many times have they been sold and bought themselves, in order to pity the pines and bamboos to attract the breeze. —— (The Enlightenment Poems of the Fifth Patriarch Qingyan)

9 The empty door refuses to come out, and it is too foolish to throw it out of the window. After a hundred years of digging into the past, when will it come out? —— (Poetry of Divine Praise for Bees Throwing into the Window)

10 I often recall the home of a scholar in the West Lake, where the sparse branches and cold pistils slanted sideways. The moment of essence is the current event, and I only owe the fragrance but not the flowers. —— (Poetry of Xuzhou Pudu Momei)

11 Take a break when you go south or north, and the white grass blows away the Chu River in autumn. The Taoist is not a guest in the autumn, and he has been familiar with the mountains for a long time. —— (Poem written by Cheng Hao on Huainan Temple)

12 The peach blossoms are blooming on the rock, where did the flowers come from? Lingzhi just saw them, and he looked back and danced three stages. —— (Poetry of Enlightenment by the Master of the Nunnery of Juehai Fayin)

13 My heart is like the autumn moon, and the blue pool is clear and bright. The list is comparable to others, teach me how to say it. —— (Poetry of My Heart in Cold Mountain)

14 The lone cloud will be the wild crane, how can it live in the human world? Momai Wozhou Mountain was known to people at that time. —— (Liu Changqing sent a poem to the Master)

15 I have a convenience, worth a hundred horses. If you fight each other for a long time, you will be weak, and you will not enter the county until you die.

—— (Wang Fanzhi I have poems)