Monday, January 13, 2025

Guanxiu

Guanxiu (832-912) Wikipedia: He is famous for depicting the 18 arhats. Here is one.




Poem fragment:

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven—
This morning is the first of this very month.
Last night, a great fire flowed back west,
An autumnal wind shook the earth, a whistling and wailing sound.
A whistling and wailing sound is the great beginning of total comprehension.
If we
        invite it to enter straightaway,
        will it be fully comprehensible?
“Memory is in every way a shackle of affliction;
No-mind is certainly a crystal palace.”



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