Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Mumon's Verse for Three Barriers

The Reading:

THE VERSE


One thought fills immensity
To see Eternity in an hour
If we see through this thought
We see through the thinker of it.
-Case 47, Mumonkan, R.H. Blyth




Discussion:

This is one of my favorite versus because there is a certain smoothness and complex playfulness.  Mumon show his true hand: he's a poet and a magician, not really a teacher at all- unless that is what teachers are.

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