YOU, STANDING STRONGLY
AMID EIGHTY-FOUR
THOUSAND DELUSIONS

The sun is said to rise in the east and set in the west.
What sense would it make if it were not for me?
What causes me to exist now?

How would you know this
as you, never having seen brightness,
are living in darkness of ignorance?

You should know your True Self
by removing the darkness of ignorance.

You, standing strongly amid eighty-four thousand delusions,
are interfusing with brightness and darkness without any hinderance!
You,
appearing to be in danger like a floating gourd dipper on waves,

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