Sublime

The heat of Master Shunryu’s heart burns away both faith and doubt leaving a withered tree in the golden wind.

HO-SHANG KUNG says, “The Tao gives birth to the beginning. One gives birth to yin and yang. Yin and yang give birth to the breath between them, the mixture of clear and turbid. These three breaths divide themselves into Heaven, Earth, and Humankind and together give birth to the ten thousand things. These elemental breaths are what keep the ten

Someone asked Zhaozhou, “Why did Bodhidharma come from the west?” Zhaozhou replied, “The cypress tree in the garden.”