P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang) - Not willing to let go of grasping and rejecting
Not willing to let go of grasping and rejecting,
In vain you labor studying the spiritual path.
You read the prescription but you don't take the medicine-
How can you be free from your sickness?
Grasp “emptiness” and it turns out to be form;
Grasping form it soon proves impermanent.
Form and emptiness - neither are my possessions;
Sitting erect, I see my native home.
Poetry Chaikhana | P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang) - Not willing to let go of grasping and rejecting
In vain you labor studying the spiritual path.
You read the prescription but you don't take the medicine-
How can you be free from your sickness?
Grasp “emptiness” and it turns out to be form;
Grasping form it soon proves impermanent.
Form and emptiness - neither are my possessions;
Sitting erect, I see my native home.
Poetry Chaikhana | P'ang Yun (Layman P'ang) - Not willing to let go of grasping and rejecting