Mushotoku: Flowing

Awareness flows,
like an eagle in the sky.

Thoughts appear from the base,
and they are certainly self-liberated.

Enjoy the beauty, and the ugliness too:
two faces of the same old coin of duality.

The six consciousnesses are your servants,
when the seventh turns into awareness.

Flow like a river, and let the all-ground
take you in an eternal blissful trip.

Mushotoku

Zen Mind: flowing

You can deceive yourself,
thinking that you are a Zen practitioner,
but unless you find a genuine master,
who mirrors your own limitations,
you will never face your wall.

A zen practitioner is not a standardized product;
He is a unique mind, with his own knots to untie.
He does not cling to dead zazen,
but makes his ordinary life zazen.

If you reach the fifth ox,
then you will know who is who.
No more deceiving or deceivers: just Ordinary Mind.

You can rationalize anything you want,
but that does not make a lie to become truth.

Whose shadow are you defending, my friend: Yours or theirs?