Like a Stream of Wind

Light sparkles like a flash of light.
How fresh and cool you will feel!
Your body feels light like a feather as if you could fly.
Who could prove this work?
Though they say all Buddhas and ancient patriarchs proved it,
You forget it.

There is a thing never changes amid endless change,
which still has spare room though it houses all the changes,
How numinous it is!
Nevertheless,
Can it be comparable to eating and dressing your daily life?
Eating when hungry and drinking when thirsty is important than
anything else.

Spending time mindlessly regardless of whether changing or not,
what difficulty would you have?
Even if you are faced with difficulty,
it will be like a stream of wind.
Never mind it.

Living a life like this,
What else would you desire?
All karma is within this.
Where else and what else would you seek?

When spring returns,
all flowers will bloom and be proud of their beauty.
 

 

Written by Master Subul Sunim
of Anguk Zen Center
Translated by Boo Ahm
(Song Soo-kyong)