Teachings From Ancient Vietnamese Zen Masters – 170
70 Not a Word
Understanding the mind and body completely,
you will open the eye of wisdom, transform marvelously,
and reveal the auspicious appearances.
While walking, standing, sitting and lying,
you stay peaceful effortlessly,
transform correspondingly, manifest countless bodies -- appearing all
over in space but having no form to be identified.
With nothing in the world comparable to,
the sacred light illuminates endlessly.
The unthinkable meaning is professed constantly;
However, there is not a word deserving.
NGUYỆN HỌC (? - 1174)
(COMMENT: Not a word deserving? Many Zen masters don’t use words.
Some prefer to keep silent, and some others threaten to punch those
who ask for words. Do you see the mountain out there? Observe it,
observe the mountain. Because your mind has no form, now you see
your mind manifesting in the form of that mountain. Because you are
non-self, now you see you are what you see, and also you see you are
what is seen. Sometimes you see that, but you rarely recognize that
moment. Sometimes you stop by a meat market, see a butcher
chopping a chicken, and feel that you are the chicken being chopped
apart.)
