禅Shibayama Zenkei

proverb

Open Your Zen Eye

A Flower Does Not Talk

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Open your Zen eye and you will see that there is nothing in the world that is not a flower, nothing that is not a spring wind.

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Lineage: Rinzai

By Shibayama Zenkei

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