Both Bull and Self Transcended

Posted by The Shobogenzo Zen Center on
Oxherding Picture by Gyokusei Jikihara

 

Whip, rope, person, and bull –
all merge in No Thing.
This heaven is so vast,
no message can stain it.
How may a snowflake exist
in a raging fire.
Here are the footprints of
the Ancestors.

I have abandoned the whip and ropes

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