Monday, March 28, 2022

The Red Thread

Why can’t clear-eyed bodhisattvas sever the red thread?

Not even an ocean of silence
and stillness can quench it;
Not even vast emptiness
can exhaust it—
it splashes out over
the whole cosmos, vibrant,
passionate, alive!
——Peg Syverson

Mount Sumeru

Koan: Master Goso En told the monk, ”There is a man who can write the five words, ‘Why Bodhidharma came to China?’ on the paper of the unive...