Teachings From Ancient Vietnamese Zen Masters – 116
48 Daisies
Clinging to nothing, forgetting body and life,
I sat quietly so long that the cold chill spread the bed.
As years passing by in mountain, without a calendar,
I saw daisies blooming and knew the autumn coming.
HUYEN QUANG (1254 – 1334)
(COMMENT: Buddha urged us to cling to nothing. That means we
should not cling to anything, even to the scriptures or the Zen masters;
Clinging to anything means clinging to a form of self-grasping. How can
we cling to nothing?
We live in this world, have in blood the three poisons, and always cling
to something.
We are taught from childhood to take pride in our glorious nation, in
our blessed religion, in our famous Zen masters, in being successful,
and so on.
