禅Bassui Tokusho

proverb

Mind Without Form

Muromachi

Traditionally attributed

Text

Mind has no form, no color, no weight. Yet it is heavier than the mountain when burdened, lighter than the cloud when free. Find the place where it is neither, and the mountain bows.

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Attribution

Lineage: Rinzai

By Bassui Tokusho

Sources

  • contentZen Buddhism: A History — Volume 2: Japan

    Heinrich Dumoulin

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