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