Originally Posted by Taigu
These two poems were written a long time ago on a dusty wall of a Chinese monastery, do you remember?
The body is the bodhi tree,
The mind is like a clear mirror.
At all times we must strive to polish it,
And must not let the dust collect.
Hui-neng writes the following verse:
Bodhi originally has no tree,
The mirror(-like mind) has no stand.
Buddha-nature (emptiness/oneness) is always clean and pure;
Where is there room for dust (to alight)?
And of course, both are right :D :wink:
gassho
Taigu