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Shu jo hon rai hoto
Kena ri mizu to ko rino
Goto kuni te mizu o hana rete ko
Rina ku shujo ono hoka ni hoto
Kena shi shujo o chika
Kio shira zushi te
To ku moto muru haka nasa
Yo tato eba mizu no
Naka ni ite katsu o sake
Buga goto kuna ri cho
Ja no ie no koto nari te
Hin rini mayo uni
Koto nara zu roku shu rin
Neno in nen wa ono
Rega guchi no yami jinari
Yami jini yami jio fumi
Soe te itsu ka sho jio
Hana rube ki sore maka
En no zen jo wa sho tan
Suru ni ama ria ri fuse
Ya jika ino shoha rami
Tsu nem butsu san ge
Shugyo oto o sono
Shina o ki shozen gyo o
Mina kono uchi ni kisu
Ru nari ichi zano ko o
Nasu hito mo tsumi shi
Muryo ono tsumi horo
Bu aku shu izu kuni ari
Nube ki jo do suna wachi to
Kara zu kata jike naku
Mo kono nori o hito
Tabi mimi ni furu ruto ki
Santan zui ki suru hito
Wa fuku o uru koto
Kagi rina shi iwa nya
Mizu kara eko oshi te jiki
Ni jisho o sho sure ba
Jisho o suna wachi
Musho oni te sude ni
Kero onwo hana reta ri
In ga ichi nyono mon
Hira ke muni musan no
Michi nao shi muso ono
So o so toshi te yuku
Mo kae rumo yoso nara
Zu munen no nen o nen
Toshi te uta -umo mau
Mo nori noko e san mai
Muge no sora hiro ku
Shichi em myo no tsuki
Sae n kono toki nani
Oka moto mube ki jaku
Metsu gen zen suru yue
Ni to sho suna wachi
Ren gego ku kono mi
Suna wachi hoto kena ri
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From the beginning all beings are Buddha’s,
like water and ice; without water no ice.
Outside us no Buddha’s.
How near the truth, yet how far we seek,
like one in water crying, “I thirst!”
Like the son of a rich man
wandering poor on this earth,
we endlessly circle the six worlds.
The cause of our sorrow is ego delusion.
From dark path to dark path
we’ve wandered in darkness.
How can we be free from
the wheel of samsara?
The gateway to freedom is Zazen Samadhi.
Beyond exaltation, beyond all our praises
the pure Mahayana.
Observing the precepts,
repentance and giving,
the countless good deeds
and the way of right living
all come from Zazen.
Thus one true Samadhi extinguishes evils,
it purifies karma, dissolving obstructions.
Then where are the dark paths to
lead us astray?
The pure lotus land is not far away.
Hearing this truth, heart humble and grateful.
To praise and embrace it, to practice its wisdom
brings unending blessings, brings mountains of merit.
And if we turn inward and prove our true nature,
that True Self is no-self, our own self is no-self,
we go beyond ego and past clever words.
Then the gate to the oneness
of cause-and-effect is thrown open.
Not two and not three, straight ahead runs the way.
Our form now being no-form,
in going and returning we never leave home.
Our thought now being no-thought,
our dancing
and songs are the voice of the dharma.
How vast is the heaven of boundless Samadhi!
How bright and transparent the moonlight of
wisdom! What is there outside us?
What is there we lack?
Nirvana is openly shown to our eyes.
This earth where we stand is the pure lotus land
and this very body the body of Buddha.
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