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Tea and Zen - One Taste

  
Singing and dancing the drover lives unfettered and in gentle comfort. He has become his own master between heaven and earth.

The drover has returned home and now home is everywhere.

No word could ever reach the wide blue sky to encompass it. How could snow remain upon the ruddy flame of the hearth?

Returned to the source and the origin the drover has already fulfilled everything.

The ox and his drover
Zen story from China

 Enso: Zen-Kreis

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bodai moto ki naku
meikyô mata dai ni arazu
honrai mu ichi motsu
izure no tokoro ni ka jin'ai wo hikan ya

The tree of enlightenment is no tree, there is neither mirror nor stand,
in origin no object
wherever would dust descend?

Daikan Enô
6. Patriarch (638 - 713)

(answer to  Gyokusen Jinshû; see: Tsukubai)