On having finished From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment: Refining Your Life, Dogen and Uchiyama - a book I know I will be keeping close!....
The gāthā of Xuedou (p83)
One, seven, there, five
The truth you search for cannot be grasped.
As night advances, a bright moon
illuminates the whole ocean;
The dragon's jewels are found in every wave.
Looking for the moon, it is here,
in this wave, in the next.
How it speaks to the question I have carried across my own (Dogen-esque)seas:
Seeing the ego in Purpose,
the judgement of Squander,
everything dropped, except
the path of vow.
One, two, three, four five -
Manifesting moon wave after wave.
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