PICTURE  herd Zen. 

 Painting  herd  Zen  painting of ten very  famous  being  creative  in the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and from the beginning has been  seen as  the paintings  represent  presented  essence , the essence of Zen  China . Ten  paintings  are: 1.  Vision ox : find buffalo, 2. Knowledge area: indication, 3. Ants ox: see buffalo, ox 4. Dac: are buffalo, 5.  Section ox : buffalo , 6.  Cavalry ngưu Family rules : buffalo riding home, 7  Vong's ox exist : people forget buffalo, ox rainbow 8. human: people have forgotten buffalo, 9. Reflecting the  reconstituted :  return fare roots and 10. Enter  sailors : wandering through the market.

 Painting  herd  from the first section, "Range ox" (find buffalo) to the eighth item "Human Rainbow ox" (buffalo are forgotten people) is due to  teacher  Thanh Residential  painting. Then he adds the item Tac Gong ninth art "Reflecting the reconstituted" ( return to  source) and do all proceedings. Finally, he continued painting Far From tenth position "Enter slopes sailors" (wandering through the market).

 Common theme of  all kinds of  paintings  herd  Zen  is the path  way of religious practice to "mental". Focus here is  symbolic  as buffalo. Ten buffalo represents the steps  sequentially  in the  realizations  are  nature purity  available from  without beginning  of  man . This is the  essence , or  Buddha nature . Zen advocated  "direct about  the nature of mind , is calculated instantly see the Buddha"  (online only  true mind ,  is calculated as the Buddha ), so different from the competition  Mahayana , paintings  Zen  painting buffalo only one color is white or black.

 Buddhism  has  three redundant  (three carriages) are goat, deer and  buffalo vehicles  carrying the goods  bar text ,  visual grace  and  bodhisattvas  that fire out of the  enlightenment . However ,  three ministers  just  means  emulates  up,  into , the  disciplines  to guide  for the less vigor. For classes  often need  time alone it's just a factor  Buddhayana . Directly put people on  planes  Buddhayana is "far from transparent ox" ( car buffalo  white). White ox far , is mind  knowing and  fullness  of the Buddha. Zen  master rod directly  into the Buddha  is. But  still kind of rare white buffalo paintings, rarely  enjoy . Type black buffalo paintings are  preferred  more because strokes are considered "virile, austere, almost life".

 White or black oil, buffalo  Zen  will keep intact a coat color through the stages  change . It's rhetoric, " e pipes ". DC teachers  taught that people  become Buddha  a city in the  interior , "works of nature" that the city, not a  recovery time. DC Teacher  advocates see the "count" is immediately  become a Buddha , "here and now in this moment." However ,  the practice  has always initiates and controls. Certification is an  event of  sudden, outside  time . Before being  cut compensation  to  recovery times  experienced  many religious ramp very  tough. Or said  another way :  tu, the " salons " where evidence is " cut ".

 Painting  herd  Zen  ever bothered to record progress in  time and  space . The process of  cultivating the mind  can be divided into 3 phases: Sai Center began heart, mind  indifferent  and  Normal heart .

1. GETTING TAM TAM SAI

 Painting 1 is  REACH NGƯU : find buffalo. Draw a pay  shepherds  are outlined hangover looking buffalo grass. Buffaloes not pictured. Overgrown  wilderness , mountain deep, dense forests, deep river, walks  along  the horizontal. Note  fatigue ,  asthenia  , but still had no idea where to where to find the buffalo. Ve just heard a boisterous cry on maple branches in the afternoon sun.

 L ời  guide: From where did not take long to make detailed search. Because enlightened awareness left  to become distant . By the  ceiling expectations  came into sight filled. Since then, the hometown increasingly  exquisite , but the roads  bumpy . Be lost sparking burning,  harassment  sprouting bristling.  

 Here, people  cultivate  new center initiates  the first step , even  beginners . Despite  the sense that the religious is  to subdue  the mind, but the mind  formless , looked around did not see traces. Further attention is something no  language  to describe how well should  find out  is to that  to subdue . Hard hearts find interest in  life , in the woods  classic  but increasingly outward  looking , the more baffling not know where is the clue to which tears off appearances.

 The buffalo  symbolizes  the  sensory properties  available in every person, always  manifested  through the six doors. Actually, a cultivator's mind is still available where it has lost that needs searching. Yes  true mind , but do not live with  true mind because when the six senses  contact  with  six ceiling , every traveling monk  chasing desires  sensual  outside should constantly start  wandering  distinction , be-loss, good- bad, right-wrong, over-lost, causing  sensory  obscured, well-hidden and  become  distant . For such  people leave their homeland dissolute  serene  adventures,  spent  the years becomes more and more  distant . When started  life  practice  to cultivating  awareness , a new person to find his heart. Wanted to  return , but the path  winding  distant  exquisite , do not know which way to go.

 Painting 2 is CONSULT ANALYSIS: indication. Note  shepherds  saw a lot of  footprints  of buffalo along the river, under the trees, in the grass and in the dense forest along the distant mountains. Painting uncle  eagerly  looking buffalo  alone that will buffalo around here somewhere, no longer  hesitant  doubts  nothing.

 Word  Tip:  to understand the meaning Nuong business, see  the teachings  in order to  find the  trail. Knowing rings, bracelets ... all just a matter of gold, are all things in all yourself. Spelling  does not need  discernment ,  puppet legs  do not need  division . This door is not accessible by temporarily called "indication."

 At this point the practitioner is in  the first step  of the  meticulous  meditation . As said "stop", said holding  the breath , should have had a few moments to live with  mindfulness . Thanks to  learn  to start out is to manually  search  inside center. Understand  that all jewelry but different external shape but inside are gold. Available shining Center- where each person is born all the legal origin of all things, all things should all be yourself. Center-  true  no  form  should be inconceivable.

 Cultivators living with heart can be  true  when the fate of his then  contact the scene  no longer  distinguish  major-misconduct, foot-masking. Although not  recognized  Center-  true  but his who believed that he could interest his availability, by not into that door, so temporary that says "indication".

 Buffalo "false mind" invisible subtle  silhouette , but Buffalo Center ruins left in  life. By his  observations  started practitioner  noticed  the trail of greed, aversion and delusion come ... These are but  disfigured , but the tragic consequences caused by the buffalo heart still remains  where it . When you see this is the focal point of the center buffalo  career  herd  also starts from here.

 Painting is CONSULT NGƯU 3: see buffalo. Listen to the birds  orioles  singing in the tree .  Cool breeze. Warm sun.  Green willow shore. Note  shepherds  find themselves buffalo. Where is the buffalo had escaped  because  previously not seen it yet uncle. Buffaloes still standing there  alone , since when, assiduous horns, nose touching skies  sky  high.

 L ời  lead:  According to the language which, had eyes that see. Doors six bases clearly not obvious mistake, in active use  blatant  manifestation . The salts in the water, the green color in the glue. Eyebrow lift is not another animal, but who is it.

 Everyone has gate six apartments were the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. Always  sensible  truth  also  is money , so always see, well ... distinctly heard clearly never lost. But action has been used as  chaotic , was  expected formula  mixed  in should not  recognize  it. Same  as right in the salt sea, even in green glue that we do not see. When lifted eyebrows, the eyes light up and he saw the buffalo are getting where they can  be counted  true .

 At this point the practitioner had  advances  in  sophisticated  practice , living with  life  awakening  frequently  than, already  feels  solid  than on  the way  the favored gender . Cultivator by  continued  observations  which we have seen is partly  the shadow  of  false mind , can suddenly see greed, hatred and delusion are their  contained  inside, but when the mind which  appear are cultivators not  afford ability  to discover . Painting shows only the tail of the buffalo "false mind" only.

 Painting 4 is DAC NGƯU: be buffalo. Buffalo has long been buried outside the wilderness, today pay  shepherds  met buffalo. Note leverage  best  new forces captured buffalo shooting. Buffalo back even stronger  stubbornly  defiant fierce fighting and aggressive, calculated  let loose  yet. It all ran to high ground to escape into the lower valley, smoke outs deep in it. Want to allow any surface buffalo suffered,  need  to lash.

 L ời  guide:  buried outside the wilderness  for a long time , today to reach a buffalo. Because buffalo are preferred beauty, love grass alone should not be difficult to pursue. Mind  defiant  hard, calculated  wild  still. Want buffalo are  domesticated  need to  resort to scourging.

 Actually where buffalo never escape, only because we do not know  to observe , so great is the loss of the buffalo, and must seek. When the buffalo "false mind", it reveals aggressive form  chaotic ,  so  the practitioner must use the "Vam meditation", to use the second pierced buckling,  guarded  strictly the "Buffalo Center" together in one place, the well used "roi world"  guard  punished  and must be supported by the  diligent  effort  to avoid the first miscarriage, the new buffalo onto the  whirring  chaotic  cause  calamity  same. Times times the "Buffalo Center" new  maturity ... At this stage, practitioners are  efforts  to subdue and master your mind, keep your mind  at rest  a place, not to be tugged under the  delusion  wrong . Concerned that just a minute  neglect  the  interest outlook may arise.

 Painting 5 is  Section NGƯU :  herd . Note  shepherds  pierced nose  with rope buffalo, whipping flagellation, watching without looking,  determined  strongly to win. Shepherd,  practice  times once the domesticated buffalo counted, submissive,  take the  notes follow the ball. But still need to lead, seconds rivulet and whip hand, but buffalo  relatively  domesticated, no longer looked up and down the first attempt something  let loose  infestation  of rice fields anymore.

 L ời  guide:  Thinking ahead has risen, according to the concept after instant. Because of foot sensation should be, by  delusions  so  into  expectations. Not by sight that only  freedom  which birth center. Wire tip not to attempt to grasp. Pierced noses , head shackles, without delay.

 Cultivator was now  completely  get  righteous  during meditation, has  insight and clear a  regular  stream of consciousness  is the  fluency  of his; or said another way, this is the stage of "using  consistent mind  watching mind". Mindfulness has arisen if the  province sense  to know it is  that idea  should not follow,  that idea  will quietly go into the legs. If you love the idea of starting to  run concept should make expectations. Remember what  the Sixth Patriarch  taught: "not afraid of thought arises, just afraid of feeling slow" only!

 Painting 6 is  signed NGƯU precious : buffalo rides home. When the buffalo "false mind" has  to subdue  it, then whip, rivulet,  elaborate  or  precepts  are no longer  needed anymore, uncle  shepherds  looked up at the clouds the distant and then climb back buffalo, buffalo riding  leisurely  go on side of road  returned home. Farewell  afternoon sun, his mouth sometimes flute notes, sang the song at the  top , hand tapping, feeling  happy  limitless. Buffalo has  become a confidant of the notes sound, follow him like a shadow, without yelling uncle,  punished  more buffalo.

 L ời  result:  Out of the  last intervention , I have finished the sentence was lost. Singing his song woodcutter, blowing tracks pay  shepherds . Sitting across the sky buffalo superbly with ru watching eyes. Urged not to rotate the head, dragged nor stop.

 At this point the practitioner has  completely  mastered his mind. The path of enlightenment  led to "a comprehensive cross section legs" were lit and laid out  in front , on the direction in which the practitioner that  return . Buffalo riding home riding center on site means  primitive , is  returning  to himself, no longer have to rely on the  external environment  to  subdue  more attention should compete only in humans and cattle, no scenery.

 Turn  over six  picture  above, we see buffalos as they turn in a certain moment, people  doubt  themselves  alone and things firsthand. Since the new facilities should look. Look surely meet mark. Meet mark in the scriptures, and especially of the minute empty, deserted landscape, night cleaning, lightly reflecting minds,  people  suddenly as  opposite  to himself.

 Distance between Buffalo and pay  shepherds  themselves  gradually  being curtailment forever  until  finally  uncle sat down on his back climbing buffalo. Who entered as a buffalo with. So if we ask where the mind is like asking where buffalo while I'm riding the buffalo. This was the period of " wrong mind to arrest attention ", a stage with  personalities  of foreign demand. Foreign demand is "made to look Buddha Buddha, sent to arrest heart center". I was chasing it around the center here,  after all  New  recognize  that where our heart, we just stopped to figure it out right materials  ahead  in new light.

2. FOCUS  heartless

 However , there are also scenes Center. As for the remaining scene "scenes of sexual contact." "The place of birth, the way". Mind, sight, love to stick together in the world  uninterrupted , ring  karmic  cause tormented,  contradictory . Religion is not  contradictory . Meditation is "no  legal delicate  subjects", not two nor one. Contradiction  is due to the mind, by thought.

 I thought that concept because they lack something, so go look outside ourselves to fill in. Zen teaches that we are not missing anything since when our life itself which is wholeness, thousands before, thousands later. We do not lack. In contrast  we have everything so balance out concept, by reflection  drawing  extra. The ones that balance, calling them  ignorant . Ignorance  which  is not true , but nobody was futile unless it ever, but simply self-knowing  self  only. Self knows "the real you" is his  ignorance  melts away, as darkness melts  away before sesame dazzling ocean.

 Thus, the work that we usually call out expectations is no longer a  job  anymore -  if not  to say that a  work  " unconditioned " - which at the same place just a  perception  only, receive  essence  Buddha  primordial  in me. So after the period of foreign players,  the next  stage is self-  consciousness . Self-knowledge is not an end by meditation, but by concept; an end to the concept by allowing  the practice  is  unconditioned , as the  net shop  for example then  people  will think that  the mind is not  true, seeing people  not true .

 Painting 7 is  VONG NGƯU HUMAN SURVIVAL : buffalo forgotten people.  Buffalo has disappeared, only pay  shepherds . Returning  home, they retired pay. The sky with  the moon  out . In the figure was no longer  the shadow of Buffalo, just sitting  relaxed  alone  in the moonlight bar. Not to mention buffalo and buffalo because the same people who  agree  concentric. Buffalo was no longer the wire whips and store it away, did not  need  to. Returning  home that is  contemplating  self-interest , to find  interested prospects  do not really  should  let go of  the ball, "buffalo heart" of course  quietly  disappeared. Seeing that  the mind does not  really end the mind: buffalo forget.

 L ời  guide:  France not  being legal duality, buffaloes called mind. Checked word "rabbit trap" to lure other name; take the word "own trap fish" to highlight the  difference . As  gold  ore drawn from the pile, like a moon  illuminate  the clouds lifted off. An optical light path, past the majestic sound life.

 After  returning  to the "presence of foot hybrid position", the religious  standing residing  in  wisdom  about the "no" of  universal existence ; ie also of interest from people, it's nothing different! Body, mind is only one. Cultivators come here  pure mind  lucid  without  cloudiness , without  delusion  mixed up trash throughout the whole  of space  and  time . For  space  and saw no  limits . For  time  and saw no no common fisheries.

 This controversy may  reflect  his mood somewhat  Hue Kha  (ie  the God of Light). Originally under the nest after  Dat Ma  cultivate  a  time , he  Hue Kha  no hope anymore departure, not a cause, not  giving into the good and evil ... but since he has not  let go  completely  false mind ,  the shadow  it still prowled up mentality  insecurity . One day he was visiting team: "My mind is not safe! Please teacher of the  security measures  heart ". Team replied: "You're safe here brought out for attention." He  Hue Kha  new long recovery silent  reverie  should  observe carefully, understand the mind  of insecurity  is also hope, should  give up ,  silhouette false mind  disappeared and been  assured . At that time he said that the new "I did not feel any heart for it." Come To  Pass Ma  said to: "So we have  peace of mind  for you then." He  Hue Kha  instant  enlightenment .

 8 is HUMAN NGƯU paintings rainbow: buffalo who are forgotten. Then the rod, wire, buffalo and all of them no longer.  Seeing  is not true  , then people forget either. People and the buffalo were disappearing, the powerful self-ground goes  onto the  sun-favored,  symbolized  by an empty circle, that circle  Giac Vien . Empty white circle  represents  for both the mind and the best approach. Shepherd's heart for example. France is the example for the buffalo. Buffalo herders and no more, which is good for the roots. That is the mind  insensitive .

 L ời  guide:  The flesh  let go , the Bible does not, it has the Buddha did not need  traveling , place not even look back nor Buddha. No sticky end or the another, not glancing see other places or places. Hundred of birds shut flowers, a case  confused .

 Heartless  not accidentally, emotionless,  apathetic , do not need to know what's coming. Heartlessness  is visible  emptiness  birth and death  of the mind, as found property. So the  Diamond Sutra  Prajna ,  the Buddha  taught: "The downside is  lettered General  Non minister, that is  the Tathagata ." Seeing the  emptiness  of the legal means  is calculated , ie see the Buddha. Mind is not born, so the  law does not  born. So  no  problems  or  binding  in  the sense . That is  the status  heartless  of the Buddha.

 "Knowing the mind is  not the mind , that is understood throughout Buddhism". When the  delusion  and  desire  her has  dissipated  disappears, even without legal Buddha comes again. Cultivators  permanent  dwell  in  wisdom  about the "no" of  universal existence , and advance to the very highest rung of the  wisdomof enlightenment : the  wicked is  unconscious  on the  existence  of "self" and "legal"  completely  was  destroyed . 

 Circle  Giac Vien  is located in the 10th painting of  Mahayana , through the  Zen here in reverse on the 8th row, which theme is " ox's death sentence ," meaning people and buffalo are forgotten. The 12th century, for that controversy  ended with circle  Giac  easy making  yogis  mistaken  stopped  halfway , so new  composing  two paintings 9th and 10th Since then, painting  buffalo  Zen  brought a nuance, than painting  buffalo  Mahayana .

3.  NORMAL HEART

 Painting 9 is the section you  DONE CAUSE :  back to  the roots. Now back in the picture  pops up  a realm of  pure  leaves are falling to the scene of roots, birds nest and fly on the water flowing on the source .

 L ời  result:  Back then  purified , such a hearing problems. Fresh View has suffered dry Minister, in direct  unconditioned  then retired quietly. Such contract with  illusory  not need anything  to practice . Ultramarine blue water Young sat down to watch the success or failure .

 Meditation for that  heartless  is not a religion, but also through a more important frontier that is "back to integration with  nature , with heaven and earth", with  the legal world , with all students, the source of life  endless  in me and outside of us, is the integration with  the nature of mind , with yourself. Who  returned  to the  pure nature , ie into  the realm  of the Buddha. Insight  super Vietnam  has  achieved , the practitioner  returned  to dwell  in the  state of  "nirvana first President",  liberation  is  complete  from any  notion  there-not born-kill, come-on, add-down, suffering embedding, maze-realization,  attainments  and objects  attained .

 Painting is IMPORT Trade 10  sailors : wandering through the market. And he  appeared  in the realms of  the human world . In painting a  monk  wandering through the markets, "to return to the secular". People to open the chest, barefoot, land application, flea ash. Who leaned on a cane, hands pregnant liquor  return home, at the mall, like everyone else, living between  life  and kept up the  pure mind , the mind has  to realize Nibbana .

 L ời  lead:  Close wooden door,  along  a ball, though  the Holy Hien  thousand shares  do not know. Literally buried one of his own, leaving the wise path before. Pregnant at the fair, cane home. Fish tavern teach  the Buddha  before.

 Dust mixed into the realms of  the human world  is a mess I do not see any more, that was just a  magic , such as how much  magic  the other. Return  to the  secular  is  returned  to the  average mind  often. Meditation teaches: " Normal heart of religion ". So wandering monks  go into  the market, into the  dust without  defilement ,  liberated  but very  ordinary  , but  in harmony  with those  secular  to  goods of  life,  intimate  friendships with alcoholic and ward sticker , retail liquor, teach  the Buddha  of all - "we are all Buddhist master it and all that". It's  no Nirvana office .

 The word  sailor  is not let go, hands down, that is  wandering  or reached out which  mentor  rescued. Tu come here is  to achieve  calm  self in ,  Nirvana  just below each step before! With  vows  of birth  of a  Bodhisattva  and with baggage "bi-location-brave" ready, the convent  up the road  incarnation , ready to work alone, using all  means of position , force to  goods of  beings , and not in  the realm of  the Buddha to rest. This is  typical  of well-  taught  beings  of  fullness .

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 English words and ten  paintings  in the  document  next  was later quoted from the "10 BULLS BY KAKUAN" (10 buffalo  Zen Master Guo Am) in the  works  , "Flesh ZEN, ZEN BONES" (Zen remains, Zen humiliation ) collection by NYOGEN Senzaki and PAUL reps (Anchor Books, 1989).

 Ten  paintings  are  works of  austere beauty, full of  meaning  and very  ancient , woodblock print by the woodblock artists are renowned as TOMIKICHIRO TOKURIKI. Painting  herd  nice not inferior to his original painting  teacher  Guo Am.

 Writers were translated  documents  into Vietnamese and competition in goods and converted into ten poems "Alexandrine"  uninterrupted

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1. The Search for the Bull

In the pasture of this world, I endlessly push aside the tall grasses in search of the bull. 
Following unnamed rivers, lost upon the interpenetrating paths of distant mountains, 
My strength and my vitality Failing exhausted, I can not find the bull. 
I only hear the locusts chirring through the forest at night.

Comment: The bull never bị lost. What need is there to search? Only separation from my vì true nature, I fail to find him. In the confusion of the senses I lose even level HIS tracks. Far from home, I see many crossroads, but Which Way is the right one I know not. Greed and fear, good and bad, entangle me.

1. Find Buffalo .

In the realm pasture  human world  , the

It  constantly  pulls through the tall grass to find buffalo. According rivers  anonymous , lost on the trails

John got in the mountains  far away , power was  debilitated  and  vitality  're  exhausted ,

I have not  found  to be buffalo. I only hear the cicadas in the woods at night.

Comment: The buffalo  have never  lost at all. Where  should  seek do? Just because we leave the  true nature  of his, I will not  find  it. In the frenzy of the  senses  that we take all the  remnants  of it. At the far house, we see many crisscrossing roads, but what is the way of  the path  exactly  the time we did not know. Heart  of greed  and the fear, the good and the bad, make us  confused .

1. FIND THE OX

In the realm prairie  folk

We  constantly  pulls aside the grass lane

Decision finding Buffalo, where  sustainability

We follow the gentle creek  anonymous

Lac on how paths  around

Green Mountain trails distant ringed

Health  depression , body  weary

Buffalo ball does find traces in the region

Just heard between vague expectations

Crickets  poured  throughout the night forest.

 

2. Discovering the Footprints

Along the riverbank under the trees, I discover Footprints! Even under the fragrant grass I see his prints. 
Deep in remote mountains chúng found. 
These traces no more can be hidden one's nose coal, looking heavenward.

Comment: Understanding the teaching, I see the Footprints of the bull. Then I learn that, just as many utensils are made from one metal, than too are made of the fabric Myriad entities of self. Nếu I discriminate, how I perceive the true sẽ from the untrue? Not yet having vào gate, I have discerned the path Nevertheless.

2.  Discovering  Traces Truth Out

Along the riverbank under the trees,

I  discover  footprints! Even under the fragrant grass 

I saw the sign in its. Deep in the mountains far away 

also found traces of it. These traces can not be  hidden  anymore 

like nose looked up toward the sky.

Comment:  Understanding  the words  teaching , we can see the  footprints  of buffalo. And we know that,  the same  as  numerous  utensils are made of a metal, as well as  so that  numerous  entities  are due to falls  structure  out. Unless  we  split  the difference,  otherwise  the same time how can we  perceive  to be true and false? When he was not given access to the door, of course we must take to the  streets .

2. Change the oil

Along the river, under the trees

I looked out  the footprints  filled in around

And just below the grass blinds

Footprint  is also  patently  clear more

Deep ridges in the domain

Buffalo also found footprints immediately reveal

Hardly  obscured  our eyes

As far as the sky looked anxiously looking nose. 

 

3. perceiving the Bull

I hear the song of the Nightingale. 
The sun is warm, the wind is mild, willows are green along the shore,  
Here no bull can hide! 
What artist can draw có massive head, những majestic horns?

Comment: When one hears the voice, one can sense nó source. As soon as the six senses merge, the gate is gõ. Wherever one one Enters the head of the bull SEES! This unity is like salt in water, like color in dyestuff. The slightest thing is not apart from self.

3. Seeing Buffalo

I hear the song of the nightingale.

Warm sun, gentle breeze lane,

willow green line along the river,

Here buffalo can not hide it!

What artist can draw that massive head,

other majestic horns?

Comment: When one hears the sound, one can  realize  that the source of it. As soon as the six senses merge, is entered into the door. Enter in wherever they could see the head of the buffalo! This integration is like salt in water, like color in dyestuff. Materials  flimsy  least not separated from  the ego .

3. SEE THE OX

English gold robins singing up

Warm sun, soft breeze  gently

John Green willow stream line

Buffaloes can hidden here!

Does anyone draw dexterity

The other end big, majestic horns?

 

4. Catching the Bull

I Seize him with a terrific struggle waged. 
His Will and power are inexhaustible great. 
He charges to the high plateau far above the cloud-mists,  
Or in an impenetrable Ravine he stands.

Comment: He dwelt in the forest a long time, but I caught him today! Infatuation for scenery interferes with his direction. Longing for sweeter grass, he wanders away. His mind still is stubborn and unbridled. If I wish him to submit, I must raise my whip.

4. Getting Buffalo

In short I caught it after a terrible fight.  The will  and  the strength  of its strong  infinitum .  It climbed the distant haze hidden plateau,   Or stand under a deep valley and access road.

Comment: It resides in the woods one  time  was long , but we've caught it today! Infatuation  landscape  has  affected  to  the direction  of it. Because thirst tastier grass, it wandering  stray . Its center is still  stubborn  and refused to be  restraint . If we want it to obey, we must raise our whip up.

4. BE CATCHING THE OX

After fighting in horrible

This we are then hauled in the other Buffalo

Buffaloes bring  willpower  great

Additional  strength  Buffaloes time  peerless

Buffalo High Leo just  floundered

Plateau hidden up every few clouds

Hay is standing down from the brook

Lung deep  chasms  have spent their way into. 

5. Taming the Bull

The whip and rope are cần,  
Else he might, stray off down some dusty road. 
Being well trained, he Becomes naturally gentle. 
Then, unfettered, he obeys his master.

Comment: When one thought arises, another thought follows. When the first thought springs from enlightenment, all subsequent thoughts are true. Through Delusion, One Makes everything untrue. Delusion is not caused by objectivity; it is the result of subjectivity. Hold the nose-ring tight and do not allow thậm a doubt.

5.  Blankets Buffalo

Whips and ropes when  necessary ,

If not  then it might  stray  down

few  roads  dusty area.

Be  trained  thoroughly, it  naturally  becomes  gentle .

And when, not forced Obviously, it obey its master.

Comment: When one  thought  arises, then  thought  another  followed  later. When  thoughts  arise first from the  Enlightenment , the  idea  next  after the  truth . Because  delusion , one makes  everything  becomes  unreal . Delusions are not due to objective  impartiality  created; it is a consequence of the  subjective . Take the cord  pierced nose  tight and should not  doubt  something.

5.  Herd

Whips and ropes  needed  stars

Buffalo still working themselves back lest  carnage

Down where dust darkened the sky

Lost , lost somewhere and then walks on.

Been  trained  thoroughly by the

Natural  Buffalo will far  Virtue

And certainly not forced

Buffaloes  obey  all easily smoothly.

 

6. Riding the Bull Home

Mounting the bull, Slowly I return homeward. 
The voice of my flute intones through the evening. 
Measuring with hand-beats the pulsating harmony, I direct the endless rhythm. 
Whoever hears this melody sẽ join me.

Comment: This Struggle is over; gain and loss are assimilated. I sing the song of the village Woodsman, and play the tunes of the children. Astride the bull, I observe the clouds above. Onward I go, no matter who wish to call me back unfortunately.

6. Riding Buffalo Home

Climb riding buffalo, I slowly turned  back to  the home user.

My flute humming in the afternoon.

Rhythmic hand percussion chords, harmony we  continually .

Those who  hear the  melodious song will be with me solo.

Word of the table: The fight is done; gains and losses are  the same  as each other. I sing the song of the woodcutter in the village and the music of a child blowing. Buffalo riding, we watched the clouds overhead. We go forward, despite anyone wants to call me back and forth.

6. RIDING THE OX HOME

Climb Buffalo riding  disengaged

I turned slowly towards the house where

I hope humming Flute pm

West I always harmonious tapping ru

Who song music  eternity

Please join us for rhythmic tempo up.

 

7. The Bull Transcended

Astride the bull, I tầm home. 
I am serene. The bull too can rest. 
The dawn has come. In blissful Repose,  
Within my thatched dwelling I have abandoned the whip and rope.

Comment: All is one law, not two. We only make the bull a temporary subject. It is as the relation of rabbit and trap, of fish and net. It is as gold and dross, or the moon Emerging from a cloud. One path of clear light travels on throughout endless time.

7. Forget Buffalo

Buffalo riding, I reached home.  I impassive. Buffalo too can rest.  Dawn arrived. Rest  of joy ,  Stay in our cottage, we had put away her whip and rope.

Word table: All legal only one, not two. We  only buffalo out to do a temporary topic. It also is a correlation between a rabbit and trap, fish with nets between. It also between gold and dross, or  the moon sticking out of a  cloud . A light  limpid mobile  throughout the last  time  endless.

7. FORGET THE OX

Buffalo riding  slowly  on the road

Home calmly  king not  bothered

And Buffalo also stay  cavalier .

Dawn arrived at the place where the red dawn

Holiday cottages in  disengaged

Roi, wire cellar, where we need time.

8. Both Bull and Self Transcended

Whip, rope, person, and bull - all merge in No-Thing. 
This heaven is so vast no message can stain it. 
How sew a snowflake exist in a raging fire? 
Here are the Footprints of the patriarchs.

Comment: mediocrity is gone. Mind is clear of limitation. I seek no state of enlightenment. Neither do I Remain where no enlightenment exists. Since I linger in liên condition, eyes can not see me. Hundreds of birds strew if my path with flowers, would be nghĩa vd praise.

8. The Buffalo And people are familiar

Whip, rope, person, and buffalo - all melted into No.

Heaven  this  immense  that

signal can not save  traces .

How could a snowflake  exists  is

in the intense flames?

These are the footsteps of the Patriarchs.

Word of the table: It has gone mediocrity. Mind  wipe out  obstacles . I do not seek  the status  of enlightenment . I did not stay where there is no  enlightenment. For I will not linger on the royal  status  at all, the eye can not see us. Although all birds have scattered flowers on the streets we go, the  praise  like that also no  sense  whatsoever.

8. ARE ALL THE OX AND FORGET

Whip, rope, person  with the  Buffalo

Together all melted into  Void

Heaven  when the  vast ,

No  traces  stored in this place.

A rather fragile snowflakes

How did  exist  when flying  objects pretend

Meet pink fire and heat out.

Patriarchs are footprints here.

 

9. Reaching the Source

Too many steps taken returning to the past tense root and the source. 
Better blind and deaf to past tense from the beginning! 
Dwelling in one's true abode, unconcerned with có without -  
The river flows tranquilly on and the flowers are red.

Comment: From the beginning, truth is clear. Poised in silence, I observe the forms of integration and disintegration. One who is not attached to "form" need not be "reformed." The water  is  emerald, the mountain  is  indigo, and I see có mà  is  tạo and honest mà  is Destroying.

9. Source

Must  undergo  countless new period  return  is

the root and source.  It is better to be blind and deaf from the beginning over again!  Dwell  in your house really,

did not  care about  the scene outside -  quiet river drifting smoothly and all red flower petal.

Comment: From the beginning,  the truth  has to shine. An on  in silence we  observe  to the  appearance  of the case and tan. Who would  refuse  to  form  the not need to worry about  not sharp . The green water, the dark mountains, and we see what is being made, and what is  destroyed .

9. ON SOURCES

Life must go through several roads

New  return  is  to place  of origin.

From early blindness, deafness go always

Yet  think back to  see even better!

And I live in the am

 His house is really  peace  long

Interest  expenses to the scene outside -

Song goes quiet, the bright red flowers.

 

10. In the World

Barefooted and naked of breast, I mingle with the People of the World. 
My clothes are ragged and dust-laden, and I am Ever blissful. 
I use no magic to extend my life; 
Now, is before me, the dead trees alive trở.

Comment: Inside my gate, a thousand sages do not know me. The beauty of my garden is invisible. Why shouldnt one search for the Footprints of the patriarchs? I go to the market place with my wine bottle and return home with my staff. I visit the wineshop and the market, and everyone I look upon Becomes enlightened.

10. In the Realm  of Human Space

Going  barefoot  and bare-chested,

we integrate with the  human  place  time positive . 

My clothes ragged and dusty, and I  happy  culmination. I will not use  magic  to extend my life; Now, in front of us, all fresh plants become withered  resurrection .

Word of the table: Inside my gate, a thousand sages do not know me. The beauty of our gardens invisible time. Why do people  need to  search for  the  footprints of the Patriarchs. I  went into the  neighborhood market with our wine gourd and turned  back to  the house with a stick. I visited the pub and the Marketplace, and  the people  that we look up to them  becomes  enlightened .

10. custodians  TIMES STAFF

Topless, barefoot  carefree ,

We integrate with  the human  world of the living .

Ragged clothes  misery ,

But I am  happy  to know how integrity.

What we need  magic  where

To expect more long-term extra life;

Before we now  manifest  before

Muon withered plants to  recover  born.

END=NAM MO CAKYA MOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.28/2/2017.