Sublime

wise-turtle stare

And he who realizes Buddha in himself, “the one behind your face, listening to my sermon,” lives in self-confidence.

Chang Weisi tightened the collar of his army coat. He turned fifty-four years old today, and in the dreary winter wind he saw his own…

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you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.”

The third disciple spoke with a quiet composure: “My master eats when he eats, and sleeps when he sleeps.”

The text was first translated into a Western language by the Jesuit missionary Joseph de Grammont, who rendered it into Latin shortly before 1788.

Piotr avait un chien pour n’être pas seul, un fusil pour n’avoir pas faim, une hache pour n’avoir pas froid. Ce jour-là, il caressa le premier, graissa le second, aiguisa la troisième. La vie n’est pas compliquée quand on a tiré le rideau de la forêt sur toute ambition.