Poetry and the Great Doubt

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I have written verses for thirty years and never once captured the moon. The student who works with the hwadu day and night, and gives up the hope of capturing it, will one day notice that the moon has been writing the verses through him.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Chin'gak Hyesim

Lineage: Jogye

By Chin'gak Hyesim

• What Is This?proverb
• Silence Speaks the Dharmaproverb
• No Ground to Stand Onproverb
• The Broken Monkproverb
• Three Questions, One Throatproverb

Sources

• contentTracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen — Robert E. Buswell

  Robert E. Buswell Jr.

  pp. 98–130