Chan is a giant tree

Rich nutrients, water, and sun

Make it grow and blossom beautifully

.

Chan is a tiny of blade grass

It roots and spreads in any place on earth

Flourishing and blossoming like the tree

 .

Chan is actually all life

Rooting deeply and growing abundantly

Flowering according to time and space

. 

Whether Chan exists or not

Whether it flourishes or decays

Need not be our worry

 .

Chan is life itself

Growing where life exists

Flowering naturally with season

.

(2007/08/09 Written at DDRC, New York.  Published in 《紅塵回頭》 by Dharma Rain Publications.)