[Buddha-l] Looking for a Xuyun's quote
Ben Carral
info at bcarral.org
Wed Nov 24 16:33:10 MST 2010
On Wednesday, November 24, 2010, Mitchell wrote:
> I think this may be a quotation from Xuyún héshang fa
> huì (Hsu yun's Discourses and Dharma Words, lit.,
> Xuyun Buddhist-monk dharma collection).
Thank you, Mitchell. Yes, it's a quote from that
particular work. It seems a gatha of four sentences.
Just at the beginning of the third day, Xuyun says:
For this reason, an ancient (master) said:
Self-cultivation has no other method;
It requires but knowledge of the way.
If the way only can be known,
Bith and death at once will end.
I'm looking for the original Chinese characters for
this poem. I have started to learn Chinese some months
ago, but I can't find them for myself at this stage of
my Chinese training. :-)
Best wishes,
Ben
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