The Song of the Skin Bag - Written by Ch’an Master Xu-Yun in his 19th year

Written by Master Xu-Yun in his 19th year
From “Empty Cloud: The Autobiography of the Chinese Zen Master”.
Translate by Charles Luk. Rev. and edited by Richard Hunn

The Essentials of Ch’an (Zen) Practice By Master Xuyun

This is a tentative translation of a discourse by the modern Ch’an patriarch Master Xuyun (1839-1959), who is also known by his English name, Empty Cloud.

The Essentials of Ch’an Practice

By Master Xuyun
The Prerequisites and Understanding Necessary to Begin Ch’an Practise

Selection of Poems and Sayings of Zen (Ch’an) Masters

Zen Poetry
Selected Quotations
VIII
You’re bound to become a buddha if you practice.
If water drips long enough
Even rocks wear through.
It’s not true thick skulls can’t be pierced;
People just imagine their minds are hard.

- Shih-wu (1272-1352)

A Compilation of Zen (Chan) Poetry, Quotes, Sayings, Verses

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Selected Quotations VII

Forgetting all knowledge at one stroke,
I do not need cultivation anymore.
Activity expressing the ancient road,
I don’t fall into passivity.
Everywhere trackless,
conduct beyond sound and form:
the adepts in all places
call this the supreme state.

- Kyogen
Rational Zen: The Mind of Dogen Zenji, p. 119
Translated and edited by Thomas Cleary

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The Poetics of Ch’an Buddhism - The Poetic Path to Enlightenment

期刊原文
The Poetics of Chan:Upaayic Poetry and Its Taosist Enrichment

Sandra A.Wawrytko
Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal
No.5 July,1992
Chung-Hwa Insitute of Buddhist Studies
P.341-378

Summary
The inherent suitability of the poetic form for communicating the ineffable has long been known to poet-practioners in all mystical traditions. Poetry offers possibilities of indirection and evocation far [...]

A Collection of Zen Poems By Ch’an Master Hsu Yun

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Venerable Master Hsu Yun (Traditional Chinese: 虛雲大師, Simplified Chinese: 虚云大师, Pinyin: Xū Yún Dà Shī, “empty cloud” (1840-1959) was a renowned Ch’an master and one of the most influential Buddhist teachers of the 19th and 20th centuries.