I hoped to spend just one more day with these words … maybe making them simpler with a parable …

Master Dogen wrote in the Fukanzazengi:

Furthermore, the whole body far transcends dust and dirt:
who could believe in the means of sweeping and polishing? [Nishijima]

Indeed, the whole body is free from dust. Who could believe in a means to brush it clean? [SZTP]


Master Huineng writing his poem ‘never a place for dust to gather …’
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