You ask the world

What Chan is

Pointing towards liberation

Chan leads to where birth-and-death ends

From heaven to earth

From south to north

Wanderers of all directions

Pass through winter and spring

With a glimpse of Chan

One departs from suffering and confusion

They who tread the path

Shall realize enlightenment

Seeing through clouds of hundreds and hundreds of miles

Uncovering immaculate self from snow of a thousand mountains

You alone, then

Walk in the present with what is

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(2012/8/31  Chan retreat in London. Translated by Kongzhu Shi.)