Followers of the Way, don’t acknowledge this illusory companion, your body—sooner or later it will return to impermanence.
What is it you seek in this world that you think will bring you emancipation?
You hunt about for a mouthful to eat and while away time patching your robe. You should be searching for a good teacher!
Don’t just drift along pursuing comfort. Value every second. Each successive thought-moment passes quickly away.
The grosser part of you is at the mercy of [the four elements:] earth, water, fire, and wind; the subtler part of you is at the mercy of the four phases: birth, being, decay, and death.
Followers of the Way, you must right now apprehend the state in which the four elements [and four phases] are formless, so that you may avoid being buffeted about by circumstances.
~ Linji, a teacher of zen - R.F. Sasaki, The Record of Linji, Discourses 14
Submitted November 05, 2019 at 02:37AM by dec1phah https://ift.tt/2pEIcRO
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