traditions, Ch'an poetics evolved into a powerful
upaayic tool. Chang Chung-yuan's pronouncement that
"pure serenification..constitutes the highest
achievement of Chinese poets, to whom ontological
and poetic experience are one" is hereby abundantly
vindicated.(49)
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(48) Lin-chi (Rinzai), as quoted by Schloegl, p.79.
(49) Chang Chung-yuan, Creativity and Taoism, p.174
p.376
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│CULTIVATION PROCESSES │HUI-NENG │
│UNDERLYING SUDDEN │unclouding the mind-Fifth│
│ │Patriarch │
│ENLIGHTENMENT │ │
│THROUGH THE STIMULUS │ │
│OF THE KUNG-AN │ │
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│THE WAY OF THE ANCIENT │Our body may be compared │
│─────────── │to the Bodhi-tree; │
│MASTER │ │
│─── │ │
│reliance on the scrip- │While our hear(hsin) is a│
│tures │mirror bright; │
│COGNITIVE LITERALISM: │ │
│ABSTRACT LANGUAGE, │Carefully we cleanse and │
│INTELLECTUAL CONTENT │watch them hour by hour, │
│AND CONCEPTS │And let no dust collect │
│ │upon them. │
│GREAT FAITH: │-Shen-hsiu │
│THE MIND IS THE BUDDHA │ │
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