Chan ---- 1. Two Quatrains (one "Yugeqi," one "Daolianzi"). 2. Six Regulated Verses. 3. Two Quatrains

"Yugeqi" (Fisherman's Song)

Heaven is the forest of all forms, earth is the cage
In Peach Blossom Spring there is no ease
Mountain colors hide
The moon wheel withers
On the cold river, in night snow, planting spring peach

"Daolianzi" (Pounding Silk)

Temple on the mountain
Evening bells arrive
Year after year seeking the Buddha's trace
All night the joyful song cannot be sung to its end
In the vast sky, the moon hangs on the old parasol tree

Perilous crags cut across the bird's path
One river flows east, two mountains part
In the long sky, geese pass where wind walks on water
Ten thousand li of billows, ten thousand li of clouds

Fog muddies the Yellow River's sand for ten thousand li
Clouds chill the red sun's waves a thousand layers deep
Heaven collapsing, earth caving in -- ordinary affairs
The restless wild heart meets itself in the mirror

1

Wind rolls heavy clouds, clouds tease the rain
Whales flip the fierce waves, waves surge to heaven
Penglai shall finally turn to three cups of earth
Avici hell still owes nine strings of cash
In idle counsel, it's not a few kalpas
With sentient beings reckoning, there are always many affinities
In the vast sea of desire, the boat is tied and drifts
A single reed -- when did it ever reach the sun's edge?

2

Cool breeze chases the sleeve, as if the person were idle
Plain shadows dance and sway at the jade water's bay
Here and there hidden flowers add wildwood charm
One spring's light rain moistens heaven's countenance
Raising the eyebrows is already the phrase before sound
Everywhere the eye touches is nothing but the final gate
Do not take this as the deepest meeting of Chan thought
Clouds arise at the edge of emptiness, phantasmagorically splendid

3

Local scenery, local wandering
Neither defiled nor pure, each thing manifests as it is
Following feeling, heaven and earth are all brilliant
Chasing dreams, the hero is always free
Same rise and fall, a thousand varieties of drama
This kind of years, that kind of sorrow
Leaning on a sword in the long sky, piercing clouds with a howl
Dispersing into heaven and earth, a jade stream flows

4

Drunk into the red dust through how many besieged cities
In an instant, grief and joy transform into wine poured out
Years sing back, the heart grows vast and far
Heaven and earth's shadow stirs, the eyes grow clear and empty
All is affinity, all is self, all the same affliction
Not delusion, not truth, not the two names
At the Eastern Sea hiding one's form, mountains with galloping horses
At Tiantai's Huading Peak -- what is this?

5

Stone tigers and gnarled pines bathe in sunlight and sleep
Moss stains deep and shallow, the path winds and turns
A solitary peak in mist -- all is painting
An empty valley without wind -- its own strings and pipes
Illuminating and shattering mountains and rivers, light in ten thousand folds
Contemplating the world complete, shadows of three thousand realms
Atop Mount Sumeru, submerged -- fire within ice
Across the kalpa-sea, waves follow a leaky-bottomed boat

6

Autumn deeper than water, evening swelling with wind
Faint blue ethereal, purple hazy and dim
A thousand layers of shadow vanish, heaven and earth illusory
Sounds rise from all directions, floating in the emptiness of past and present
Suddenly sensing the lit lamp washes away solitude
Still bewildered, raising a finger to knock on perfect penetration
The heart of heaven everywhere bright as day
A single ice-flower splashes fiery red

Floating clouds are originally affairs within the heart
What other things could possibly obstruct the great clarity?
Wind and rain filling the sky, dust becomes a mirror
One evening's fireworks, bright within the mist

The yellow sun, startled wind, falls at the Northern Pass
The crescent moon first appears, stars brilliant in array
The Milky Way, dark and fathomless, passes in an instant
Having traversed all the spirit peaks, returning empty-handed