1月5日

即心是佛
唐 布袋和尚 ( ?~917 )

我有一布袋，虛空無掛礙；
展開遍十方，入時觀自在。
一鉢千家飯，孤身萬里遊；
青目睹人少，問路白雲頭。

──選自《定應大師布袋和尚傳》

January 5th

Mind Is The Buddha
Budai ( ? - 917, Tang Dynasty)
English translation: Miao Guang and You Zai

I have a cloth bag that is void and empty of worries,
It opens in all directions and closes with perfect ease;
With an alms bowl I eat from a thousand households,
All by myself, I travel across ten thousand miles;
Having encountered too few clear minds out there,
I turn to the white clouds high above for directions.

── from Dingying Dashi Budai Heshang Zhuan
(Master Ding Ying’s Biography of Master Budai)