🌸 ''The entire world is mind ground; the entire world is blossom heart ...

[Donkees]

1. 🌸 ''Old plum tree bent and gnarled''

Dogen (1253) - My late master Taintong ascended the seat and taught the assembly:

''Old plum tree bent and gnarled

All at once opens 🌸 one blossom, two blossoms,

three, 🌸 four, five blossoms, uncountable 🌸 blossoms, 🌸

not proud of purity,

not proud of fragrance 🌸

spreading, becoming spring,

blowing over grass and trees


Whirling, changing into wind, wild rain,

falling, snow, all over the earth.

The old plum tree is boundless.''

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