Zen poetry

1, Zen Poetry 1: Find yourself

Tangwujicang

Looking for spring all day long, but not seeing spring, straw sandals break the ridge.

When I came back, I smelled the fragrance of plum blossoms. Spring has come to the branches.

Where can a person find himself if he only pursues outward in the southeast and northwest? We are in our hearts. When we find ourselves, we find our nature. It is not easy to find yourself and know yourself. And people in the world often don't know themselves, ignorant and distressed, how pitiful!

2. Zen Poetry 2: Get rid of confusion

Tangniaoke

Come and go without a trace, go with the flow.

Why ask more about floating things? It just floats in the dream.

People can't get rid of confusion from birth to death If you can't see through and life is full of confusion, then people can only fall into it, sink again and again, and finally get nothing.

3. Zen Poetry III: Gathering and Scattering

Tang longya

Look at the flowers that bloom in the morning, the trees are red, but look at the flowers that fall at night.

If you compare flowers with human things, flowers are compared with human things.

Flowers bloom and fall, life and death are impermanent. Nothing in the world is constant, and nothing is unique. Everything depends on karma. As the saying goes, "if you gather, you will become, and if you disperse, you will die." We should cherish each other.

4. Zen Poetry 5: Free and Easy

Song Ji 'an kept clean.

Water flows down the mountain unintentionally, and clouds return to the hole unintentionally.

Life is like clouds and smoke, and Cycas blooms all over the world in spring.

A free and easy life is the life of a Zen master. In line with their own nature, why pursue fame and fortune? All speech acts in the world are just shadows projected by the mind. Life is short, give up things outside, give up fame and fortune. Only in this way can we live freely, wonderfully and freely.

5, "Zen Poetry 6: Stay for a lifetime"

Minghanshan Deqing

I only see willow green in spring and chrysanthemum yellow in autumn.

Brilliance is always the dream of the third night, and wealth is the same as September frost.

A year has the alternation of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the ups and downs of life and death, and the reincarnation of life, old age, illness and death. There is really nothing worth our persistent nostalgia. Don't just be busy with the immediate prosperity, but also with our long-term future. The appearance of a life will always leave a memorial for the world.