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Living Our True Nature _____________________________________________________
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In Search of the Bull
« In the pasture of this world,
I endlessly push aside the tall grasses in search of the bull.
Following unnamed rivers,
lost upon the interpenetrating paths of distant mountains,
My strength failing and my vitality exhausted, I cannot find the bull.
I only hear the locusts chirring through the forest at night. »
The bull never has been lost. What need is there to search? Only because
of separation from my true nature, I fail to find him. In the confusion of
the senses I lose even his tracks. Far from home, I see many crossroads,
but which way is the right one I know not. Greed and fear, good and
bad, entangle me.
Chan master
Kakuan