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Living Our True Nature _____________________________________________________
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Both Bull and Self Transcended
« Whip, rope, person, and bull -- all merge in No-Thing.
This heaven is so vast no message can stain it.
How may a snowflake exist in a raging fire?
Here are the footprints of the patriarchs. »
Mediocrity is gone. Mind is clear of limitation. I seek no state of
enlightenment. Neither do I remain where no enlightenment exists.
Since I linger in neither condition, eyes cannot see me. If hundreds of
birds strew my path with flowers, such praise would be meaningless.
Chan master
Kakuan