Boddhi originally has no tree
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TITLE: Boddhi originally has no tree
AUTHOR: Hui-neng (J.Eno)
SOURCE: The Ten Directions, Vol 2, No 3, October 1981. pp. 7
NOTES: A poem by the Six Zen Patriarch, Hui-neng, in response to a couplet by his senior Shen-hsiu (J. Shinshu, Jinshu). The Chinese text was translated by Philip Yampolski.
Boddhi originally has no tree,
The mirror also has no stand.
Buddha-nature is always clean and
pure
(or, "from the first, there is not
a single thing"
Where is there room for dust?
